Lubuntu Manual - Getting Started With Lubuntu

[Jonathan Marsden]

Ali and Phill,

On Mon, May 13, 2013, at 06:51 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:

> If I write say 20% of the pages. When we will move to a new system,
> can this be transferred or should be 're-written' again? re-write the
> whole thing?

When Phill says "we will be using Mallard", the referent of the pronoun
"we" is unclear.  I think Phill means "the official Ubuntu documentation
team".  Not the Lubuntu Wiki team.  Not the (yet to be formed) group of
people who may be working on an Lubuntu-specific version or equivalent
of http://ubuntu-manual.org.

> AND ... is it a MUST that we follow that plan? can we still use the
> same Wiki Format? ...

Relax.  The wiki is not going to stop using existing (Moinmoin) wiki
formatting.

The needs of a document formatting system for online informal
documentation (such as a wiki) are *different* from those of a more
formal offline documentation approach (such as a printed manual).  The
discussion item in vUDS is for *offline* documentation (a manual, or a
set of manuals).  No- one (as far as I know) is suggesting replacing the
Ubuntu wiki with some new and different technology for online
documentation that needs different markup.

Let's keep the different kinds of documentation needs clear in our
minds.

Jonathan
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