Ubuntu Help Center and Mallard items

[Kyle Nitzsche]

Hi all:

Some of the areas we've touched on in recent weeks that I think deserve 
highlighting.

Ubuntu Help Center strategic goals/requirements:
 * An Ubuntu Help Center Strategic Goals doc could help address 
big-picture questions/directions in a community-friendly way
 * Would be a nice doc for revisiting at each UDS with focused discussions
 * What is the most import thing Ubuntu Help Center should do (and does 
it do it as well as it should now)?
 * What are today's deliverables and are they the right ones?
 * Drop Ubuntu Help Center and instead add Ubuntu topics to Gnome help?
 * All source format Mallard? Or some docbook and some Mallard?
 * What is missing and what are the barriers to achieving these things?
 * What can be dropped?

Mallard Plan:
 * There should be a high-level migration plan
 * Should migration be done incrementally to learn and apply lessons and 
to allow time for Mallard bugs to be addressed upstream?
 * Coordination with Ubuntu -Translators: can they do all the Mallard 
migration work in a single cycle, or would they prefer/require 
incremental migration?
 * Coordination with Ubuntu release schedule
 * Integration of upstream docs
 * LP project approach
 * Packaging approach
 * Writer education
 * Work flow approach and education
 
Open Mallard technical items:
 * Need a way to prevent (or, at least label) topics that are not 
official so the user isn't confused by potentially bad info
 * Need a way to order topics. This may be especially important if 
Ubuntu Help Center becomes a set of add-on topics to gnome help.

Customization:
 * Look towards decoupling monolithic help content into sub packages to 
facilitate customization for Ubuntu variants

Localized images:
 * Should we look towards localizing images where the benefit warrants 
the cost (beyond limiting to icons and images without text, the current 
plan)
 * Need to wait for LP support for localized images? (No, I think)

Cheers,
Kyle