Transition to Mallard?

[Vikram Dhillon]

We could probably have this ready for lucid +1, but thinking about
Phil's previous idea the service packs one, we could actually make it
in one of the service pack releases, if the translations work out fine
:)

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Connor Imes <rocket2dmn at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Based on the discussions so far, I would like to see us move forward
> with a testing branch for switching to Mallard.  I would not pressure us
> to get it done for Lucid at all given that we are halfway through the
> release cycle and no blueprints or approvals exist for the switch yet.
> Rather than pursuing such a tight schedule there, we should instead
> focus on getting the existing Docbook version of the docs up to date for
> Lucid as there are many outstanding problems with them (check the bug
> report list [1])
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs
>
> I think now is a great time to simply start playing with Mallard to see
> how easy it is to use, what troubles we may have during the switch, and
> what problems may come in a deployment environment.
>
> More comments below:
>
> Benjamin Humphrey wrote:
>> I do agree that trying to get it implemented for Lucid might be a bit
>> hard.
>>
>> But do we really want to be stuck with yelp for two years on an LTS?
>> Perhaps it could be targeted for Lucid +1, with implementation in
>> Lucid in one those "service pack" type things.
> I don't think it is a big deal to be stuck with Docbook for the LTS
> release as we will primarily only be releasing patches via SRU, not
> writing new documentation for it.  The thought had occurred to me
> though.  I don't think we would switch over formats during a service
> pack type release, as this would most likely not qualify for a SRU.
>
> Cheers,
> -Connor
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