Status of splitting off docs?

Clint Byrum clint at ubuntu.com
Mon Nov 28 23:45:46 UTC 2011


Excerpts from Kapil Thangavelu's message of Mon Nov 28 14:04:05 -0800 2011:
> Excerpts from Clint Byrum's message of Mon Nov 28 16:59:08 -0500 2011:
> > Excerpts from Kapil Thangavelu's message of Mon Nov 28 11:35:08 -0800 2011:
> > > Excerpts from Gustavo Niemeyer's message of Mon Nov 28 13:37:41 -0500 2011:
> > > > > It was my understanding at UDS that we were going to split the docs
> > > > (...)
> > > > > Thoughts?
> > > > 
> > > > Sounds very sensible.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Sounds good to me. I suggest we capture as a doc series @ lp:juju/docs. We can 
> > > pull it in when cutting tarballs or packages so the source gets distributed with 
> > > docs. 
> > > 
> > 
> > If we're going to put it in tarballs (we're going to do tarballs!!? w00t),
> > why wouldn't it just be part of lp:juju but subject to a different
> > review process?
> > 
> 
> The original goal was it would be easier to have a different review policy for a 
> different repo, and possibly a different license for the docs and/or obviate the 
> need for a CLA.
> 
> I recall you advocating @ UDS that mixed license source trees where fine, and 
> the docs inline to the source tree had some inherent benefit. 
> 

I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I lean toward simpler. If
we just want to make a different policy for lp:juju/docs, it seems a lot
simpler to just state publicly than splitting them into their own series.



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