From the docteam meeting

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

On Jul 25, 2006, at 1:08 AM, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
>
>> To abolish the "Ubuntu Book Excerpt" menu item, I plan to:
>> 1.  incorporate, into the help, anything from the book chapters that
>>     is useful to someone already running Ubuntu
>> 2.  add a link to the book from a "Getting more help" page
>> 3.  report a bug about the book files being obsolete.
> ...
> Sorry about the cut here, but the link in Yelp to Ubuntu Book Excerpt 
> came as a request from SABDFL himself,

Right, that's why I said "a spec probably would be counter-productive. 
I suggest we instead work towards making the changes obviously the 
right thing to do." :-)

> and also I don't know if there will need to be a bug filed about the 
> book files being obsolete as there are plans to keep updating the book 
> (the last I heard anyways).
> ...

Obsolete doesn't only mean out of date; it can also mean redundant or 
no longer required. We can make the latter two true even if the former 
is not.

-- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/