Proposed string freeze exceptions

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Sun Oct 4 09:59:55 UTC 2009


Hi Connor,

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Connor Imes <rocket2dmn at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Matthew East wrote:
>> As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationStringFreeze please voice
>> any objections asap! Otherwise I'll take care of them. Also feel free
>> to suggest any others.
>
> I filed bug 437446 [1] last weekend regarding the absence of Grub2
> documentation in Karmic.  I believe that Grub2 will be default on all
> fresh installs of Karmic, though upgraded systems will keep their
> previous Grub version.  While I don't think we should try to push full
> documentation on Grub2 into Karmic this late in the game, I believe it
> would be valuable to add some mention of Grub2 in key areas of the
> system docs, if only to prevent users from getting confused when trying
> to change Grub configuration, but not knowing that Grub2 is different.

This sounds like it might affect quite a few strings. Are there places
in the documentation where the instructions given are actually
incorrect? If so, perhaps we should focus on those and seek to fix
them while minimising the number of strings changed.

-- 
Matthew East
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