Great news on Release Schedule

[Matthew East]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 18:29 +1000, Robert Stoffers wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:06 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:17 -0400, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > > I hadn't seen this (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseSchedule) until
> > > Mark Shuttleworth sent out his email tonight.
> > > 
> > > I love this part:
> > > 	"Documentation and Translation
> > > 		We will introduce a freeze date for changes to menu structures,
> > > application menus, 			and (broadly) application strings, to allow for the
> > > maximum coverage of our 				translation teams. In addition, we will freeze
> > > core documentation to allow for the 			translation of the documentation
> > > itself. "
> > 
> > I've made a suggestion about this which attempts to learn some of the
> > lessons from Breezy, regarding quality control and error correction.
> > 
> > I've written:
> > 
> > <quote from page>
> > I think we should have a dual document freeze: Breezy taught us that
> > lots of errors in the documentation got picked up after document freeze
> > and this left us either correcting them and reuploading for translation
> > and/or not correcting them at all. Therefore I would propose that the
> > document string freeze is made slightly earlier, allowing for a period
> > of proper review, followed (1 week, 2 weeks?) by a full freeze after
> > which NO further changes can be made and documents to go for
> > translation.
> > </quote>
> > 
> > Thoughts here?
> 
> Matt,
> 
> I think we should also open the review to people outside the docteam as
> well, to let people read through the documents without regard for the
> technical aspect of them (the xml). Most of our errors were picked up by
> users, despite there being enough time for these errors to be picked up
> by docteam members, who were more concerned with changing things how
> they thought they should be (like removing/adding things) rather then
> reviewing and making suggestions on whats there. 
> 
> Doing so would be simple, we can use doc.ubuntu.com for this purpose,
> and announce it on the fridge/forums. This would also help gain more
> publicity and promote more widespread use of our documents within the
> Ubuntu community, such as those users that use the #ubuntu IRC channel
> and the forums.

No problem, that is what the website is for.

Matt

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