new-since-6.10.xml

[Will Simpson]

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 15:15 +0100, Matthew East wrote:

> On Fri, February 16, 2007 3:08 pm, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > Isn't what's new supposed to be covered in the release notes?
> 
> Yes. I agree with mpt - the marketing and new features stuff is done on
> the website and in the release notes, which is shown to users in at least
> the following situations:
> 
> 1. When dist-upgrading with the update-manager route.
> 2. When opening firefox for the first time after dist-upgrading.
> 
> The help is not a useful place to introduce these features. I'm personally
> not sure that we can realistically maintain a document dealing with what
> needs to be done different since Ubuntu 6.10, it will take a lot of effort
> on a release-by-release basis, serious interaction with the developers and
> probably more resources than we have.
> 
> That's why my view is that the "New to Ubuntu" section should cater for
> people who are new to Ubuntu per se, rather than for those who are also
> new to this specific release of Ubuntu. I think the more organised we get
> and the more contributors we have, maybe my view on that will change in
> the future.
> 
> Matt
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I disagree with the idea that the help system not being a place to
introduce features and functionality. Also I disagree with the notion
that this takes much effort. As stated previously, this page was created
by scraping the info released on the various herd release pages. The
detail would be linked to deeper in the help where applicable.

But ...

I'll follow the consensus which seems to be saying this is a bad idea
now. Given this direction, I'll remove the "What’s new since Ubuntu 6.10
(“Edgy”)" section of newtoubuntu.xml. I don't know who put that section
in and I wonder what they were thinking it would be used for.

/me off to find another area in /ubuntu/C to work on

Will
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