Sec: Unclassified RE: proposal for our repository structure post-breezy

[Sean Wheller]

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 21:07, Troy Williams wrote:
> I have not faded away, although it would appear that way.  I have not
> had the luxury of being particularly active the past couple of months
> due to increased responsibilities at work, but I continue to read every
> post to this list, pop into irc from time-to-time and make the
> occasional tweak to a doc/wiki page.
>
> My plan is to be able to participate more actively very soon.  Just
> wanted to chime-in on the side of Kubuntu documentation.

Hello Troy,

Good to hear from you.

Seems that people see my wanting to fork the kubuntu-docs as a bad thing. 
Strange how people always read negative into things. Anyway, I appreciate 
that yourself and others have busy schedules. I am also running like crazy to 
keep work going, hence I also had to step away from the kubuntu-doc project. 

My reasoning for wanting the move is that I feel kubuntu-doc needs a home of 
its own. I voice it here so that others will discuss and debate with open and 
unemotional mind on the topic. I look to find what is best for the 
Kubuntu-doc project.

Kubuntu-docs is presently totally over shadowed by Ubuntu-doc and I think it 
will remain so as long as it stays in ubuntu. I may be wrong, but I think 
that other distributions trying to work in the same way will also be over 
shadowed. Ubuntu is just to big. I have felt that people wanting to do work 
on the smaller side often feel over whelmed by the size and activity of 
Ubuntu. Somebody once asked, something to the effect of,  "Why does working 
on kubuntu-docs feels like you are working on the arse end of the world?"  I 
can't remember who, but it must be in the archives.

Anyway, as the person who first started to muster support for doing 
kubuntu-docs, I am reflecting on the project and trying to see what will make 
it work better. The course of breezy development has drawn me to the 
conclusion that if it is ever to step out from the shadow of Ubuntu it must 
make a presence of its own.

Naturally, I in no way own the project and people are totally entitled to 
disagree. Should people feel that the current arrangement is working just 
swell, then they are still free to continue. My intention is not to hinder. I 
am just daring to ask questions based on my observations and feels. I do 
realize that suggesting a split in this forum such as this with such a high 
loyalty to Ubuntu, may be asking for trouble, but I also feel that we need to 
be free to actually look at what we are doing once in awhile and decide how 
to proceed. INHO no time is better than just after a release, that is why I 
have not mentioned this until now.

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Sean Wheller
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