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[matthew.east at breathe.com]

The issues which has been discussed in this list of last minute changes to 
Ubuntu impacting on the documentation team was raised at the Technical Board 
meeting this evening. Matt Zimmerman concluded that the best solution was 
for us to factor the documentation into the release cycle, so that it is 
clear when things are going to freeze, and when we can expect that no 
further changes will occur. Obviously it is possible that things don't go to 
plan, and in that event, it is important that the docteam will be informed: 
Matt said that this would not be too difficult, because such changes require 
authorisation. He mentioned that the issue of release cycles will be 
discussed at UbuntuDownUnder, and requested: 

mdz: if you can send me 1) a list of items that we should be aware of which 
affect documentation (artwork?  translations?  desktop behaviour?), and 2) a 
conservative estimate of the time it would take to adjust for a change in 
one of those areas
mdz: then I will feed that into the discussion in Sydney 

What are people's opinions on this? Perhaps we can put together a wiki page. 

Matt