Integrating upstream and OS-specific help (was Re: Lack of release targeting in Malone)

[Matthew East]

Hi Matthew,

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 19:30 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
[...]
> The current situation -- with upstream Gnome producing self-contained 
> help on Gnome programs, then distributors making completely separate 
> stuff -- does nobody any good, least of all the poor people trying to 
> use the help. It results in, for example, the sheer silliness of the 
> "Ubuntu Desktop Guide" coexisting with the "Desktop User Guide". It 
> would be great to get upstream and distributors working more closely 
> together to fix this.

You're totally right, of course. At the moment, the upstream
infrastructure doesn't really allow for this to happen, as far as I can
see, but I know this is something they are interested in.

One thing that we could do would be to interrelate a lot more with the
upstream stuff, such as providing links in our guides to the program
manuals and so on.

The downside of doing that would be that we'd have to stop putting the
guides on the web, because those links wouldn't work. either that, or
maintain two copies of stuff, one for the distro, and one for the web.

Matt
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