Open Week - another docs day?

[Belinda Lopez]

Jim Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I'd be pretty interested in running an introductory session on Mallard,
>>> if that's possible?
>>>       
>> I like the idea, but am just turning over in my mind whether this is
>> something that is suitable for OpenWeek, or maybe a separate session
>> some other time. Mallard isn't currently part of our tools and may not
>> be something appropriate for potential new contributors to the team.
>> I'm wondering whether introducing them to two document formats might
>> be a bit off-putting at the stage that we are talking about. It's not
>> something currently necessary to contribute to the docteam so would it
>> be relevant?
>>
>> It occurred to me that a talk on Mallard might be something more
>> useful for existing contributors to the docteam, so that we can think
>> more about whether/when to switch and can prepare for doing so if we
>> decide to.
>>
>> I'm not totally against it but would like to explore these points a
>> bit further. Let me know what you think.
>>
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>>     
> Would switching the Ubuntu docs to mallard be something that the group
> would want to consider for the 10.04 release?  Or, given that there is
> more of an emphasis on stability for this release . . . do you think
> we'll just wait for 10.10?  ( . . . I am just realizing... 10.10...
> perfect 10!)  ;-)
>
> If it is the former, then giving a talk on mallard would be most
> appropriate.  If not . . . staying with docbook in the Open Week talk
> would make sense.  This is
> certainly something that we need to discuss, though.
>
>   

+1 Jim - is there any timeline for the GNOME switchover to Mallard?  or
have they already started implementing?  I think it's also definitely
worth some talk and blueprints for UDS as well.  If the toolchain is
going to shift, a transition plan would be worthwhile.

cheers,

Dinda


> Jim
>
>   

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