Objectives for Oneiric - Brainstorming

[Matthew East]

On 27 April 2011 18:15, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Here are my brainstorming thoughts for objectives for the next release
>> cycle, with justification underneath. They are in no particular order
>> - please add your comments and other ideas.

{snip}

>> • Convert the "Ubuntu Classic" docs to Mallard and ship them in
>> /usr/share/gnome/help/ubuntu-classic.
>>  - for discussion.
>>  - one approach is to branch the Unity documents and amend them to
>> reflect Ubuntu Classic. This would be a fair amount of work for us and
>> translators.
>>  - another is to leave the documents "as is" for the foreseeable future.
>
> As I understand it, Ubuntu will only ship with Unity and Unity2d sessions in
> 11.10. The "Ubuntu Classic" session will not be shipped on-disc, so I don't
> think it will be necessary to convert the Ubuntu Classic docs to Mallard.

Ah, I wasn't aware of that. Let's see how this moves forward following
UDS and subsequent planning and adjust our objectives accordingly.

> I would also like to review apps that are installed by default and make sure
> that they have up-to-date help, and see if we can update the help to the
> Mallard format. With some apps, this can be something that we can work with
> upstream Gnome folks, too.

This is an interesting point and will depend in part on how Ubuntu
uses and interacts with upstream Gnome in the forthcoming release. To
the extent that patches on upstream applications are being maintained
in Ubuntu and these impact significantly on the user experience, we
should consider whether/how we can patch or replace the upstream
documentation. We should get a list of these going. It will be
particularly relevant to Gnome apps which are modified to work with
Unity but there may also be other examples.

We should certainly make a list of apps which have been developed
within the Ubuntu community and focus on those with a view to keeping
them updated, or where they do not have documentation, perhaps work on
adding some. Here is my off-the-cuff list of apps, feel free to add
more.

- software-cente
- usb-creator
- jockey
- ubiquity?
- ubuntu one?
- banshee ubuntu music store?

-- 
Matthew East
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