Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide

[Scott Kitterman]

Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>As Daniel recently announce, the new Sphinx-based Ubuntu Packaging
>Guide [0] has recently reached a major milestone. It is now fully
>translated and available in Spanish. [1] Good progress is currently
>being made on making it available in other languages as well. [2]
>Another major milestone is on the horizon. We are about to take the
>next step in phasing out the old wiki-based packaging guide
>completely.
>
>At UDS-R, it was decided that the new guide has reached a mature
>enough state to officially deprecate the wiki-based guide. [3] The
>current plan is to:
>
>1) Send a last-call anouncement to ubuntu-devel requesting bug reports
>about any missing material. Announce steps 2 and 3 will take place
>after one month.
>2) Move the entire PackagingGuide wiki namespace en masse to
>PackagingGuideDeprecated.
>3) Redirect wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide to
>developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/
>4) After six months (one full development cycle)
>PackagingGuideDeprecated will be deleted.
>
>This is the mail referred to in step 1. In one month, I will move the
>entire PackagingGuide wiki namespace enmass to
>PackagingGuideDeprecated and set up a redirect. If you feel that there
>are any critical pieces of information that are missing from the
>Sphinx-based Ubuntu Packaging Guide, now is the time to file bugs (and
>provide patches). [4]
>
>Many thanks to all the contributors who have helped to get the Ubuntu
>Packaging Guide in such great shape!
>
>[0] http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/
>[1]
>https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2012-December/000997.html
>[2] https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-packaging-guide
>[3]
>https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-r-packaging-guide
>[4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-packaging-guide/+filebug
>
>-- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
>
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UDD is not mature or reliable enough to be presented to new users as "the" way to do packaging for Ubuntu.  I think the current guide is fatally flawed as is.

As soon as a branch is out of date, new users are lost.

Scott K