Team processes for Karmic (was Re: Proposal: Create product for each derivative's documentation)

[Phil Bull]

Hi Matt,

On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:21 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> However, we should remember that writing documentation for Ubuntu,
> Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu will inevitably require a separate work
> product. It will also require people with different experiences to
> contribute to each, not least because you definitely have to have used
> the flavour that you are documenting in order to contribute. I'm a
> huge proponent of doing everything possible to keep us coherent as a
> team, but we do need to recognise that people are likely to end up
> contributing to the area of the documentation that they are interested
> in and familiar with.

Of course, but it's not necessarily about code sharing. We can only ever
share a limited amount of code. I'm talking about working together in
terms of style, planning and training. The documentation for each
flavour is quite different in style and structure, and I don't see why
it should be; I have no idea about the future plans of the other
flavours; I don't feel that we have any sort of unified "process" for
training newcomers.

In short, I don't think that we are sharing ideas and expertise between
the different groups, or forming a consensus on the best way of doing
things for our users. In fact, the only thing we regularly discuss as a
team is infrastructure!

Thanks,

Phil

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