Sec: Unclassified RE: proposal for our repositorystructure post-breezy

[George Deka]

Having a generic/common and linking to the work in there if it is non DE
specific, sounds like a great idea to me.


On 19/10/05, Stoffers, Robert LAC <Robert.Stoffers at defence.gov.au> wrote:
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> 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.
>
>
> One of the reasons behind the suggestion I made about changing the layout
> of svn is to allow Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu and any new projects after that
> to do their own thing without being over shadowed by Ubuntu. Any new
> contributors can easily pick what project they want to work on, and it won't
> effect to any great deal the efforts of other projects.
>
> Mostly I don't agree with forks, but in this case its most likely the best
> outcome as far as Kubuntu is concerned. Whist working on the Ubuntu FAQ
> Guide I would have found it easier to also work on the Kubuntu FAQ Guide if
> they were separate. Between the two there are a lot of differences, the few
> things that are the same (such as codecs) can just be copied and pasted
> between the two, or we can set up a file/s in /generic/faq that both
> versions of the FAQ Guide can pull common information out of. This is
> probably the most cost effective way of having docs for different project
> without duplicating work, but obviously it will require more team work and
> communication between the projects.
>
> So I'm happy if Sean wants to fork the FAQ Guide for this and anything
> else (some of which he has already done). I expect the same to happen with
> Xubuntu soon too.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Robert Stoffers
> Author/Maintainer - Ubuntu FAQ Guide
> Email - rstoffers at gmail.com <http://gmail.com>
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