Suggestion: Postpone DocumentationStringFreeze

[Benjamin Kerensa]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 2013-04-12 02:38, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
>> There were special reasons for previous Doc String Freeze
>> postponements the changes we made are already being worked on by the
>> translations team...We will not be likely adding any new changes
>> because its too late now.
>
> If I understand it correctly, this is what has been done after the
> Quantal release:
>
> * A bunch of bug fixes and minor functionality (not content) fixes
> * A large merge from gnome-docs on April 7 (after doc freeze)
>
> That's basically it. Nobody seems to have reviewed the merged gnome-docs
> contents from an Ubuntu perspective, or else refreshed the contents for
> 13.04. The "What's new" page we mentioned in another thread was modified
> so it claims to state news in 13.04, but the list of "New and improved
> features" is the same as in Quantal. :(
>
> Can there be more special reasons than this to keep (start) working on
> the docs after FinalRelease?
>
> Matt explained in another message in this thread how it could be
> accomplished, and in all practical means that's what I meant in the
> original post. I suppose it would require that somebody takes the lead,
> and lets the rest of the team know what to focus on. Would you be a
> candidate for that role Benjamin?
>
> --
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj

I would not have the time to take up such a role as I will be
travelling and at conferences starting next week through most of the
summer. I think I agree with Matthew that there has previously been a
lack of resources and this situation has not really changed in fact
since previous cycles the amount of time the few contributors do have
has been significantly reduced.

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Benjamin Kerensa
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