Thanks re: Release TODO

[John Kim]

Hi everyone, 

@Tom
Totally agree with you.  Our information needs to be directed to the right person in a clean manner, and the system you proposed sounds awesome! :-D 

Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi :)
>You did email the entire list so that was ok but then you said "Hi
>Kevin".  I was just suggesting just saying "Hi" or something without
>really giving a name.  Sometimes a single message might be replying to
>various individual's specific comments in which case it might have 
>"
>Hi :)
>blah, blah
>
>@Kevin 
>yes but blah, blah blah
>
>@Tom 
>??? blah
>
>"
>
>We once had someone writing 5 separate messages to the list but each
>saying hi to a different person and then the contents saying things
>like "i have just written to Kevin about ... " and then copied the
>contents of his previous post to the list which everyone, including
>Kevin, had already read.  (Errr i was just using the name Kevin as an
>example).  
>
>It takes a while to get used to mailing lists!  
>
>Regards from 
>Tom :)  
>
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
> From: MARTIN DIXON <mh.dixon at btinternet.com>
>To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> 
>Cc: Kevin Godby <godbyk at gmail.com>; "ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com"
><ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 19:40
>Subject: Re: Thanks re: Release TODO
> 
>
>
>Thanks Tom   Will address whole list for new stuff. 
>
>Re Legal - No!  How to clear this up? 
>
>When other pages are clear link = title I found Legal link confusing
>because it did not lead to Legal title.
>The content of the page - whatever it is - (I suggest) should reflect
>the title in the context in which it appears; hence the existing page
>is Ok.
>Do we need ten pages of 'stuff' if we can state our position simply. 
>Whether there is a need for more 'proprietary' content is another
>matter.  
>
>Martin
>
>Tom Davieswrote
>
>
>
>Writing to the whole list is best.   
>..........
>So, even though it is a bit different to a proprietary project's
>"Legal" page i think it is about as close as we get.  The page might
>need more work to bring it more consistent with the "Legal" page on
>proprietary equivalents as pages are
>rarely static and completed.  Situations change, new releases happen,
>new functionality gets added or default programs get swapped for
>others.  People may be looking for a "Legal" page and may then get
>confused if the page names are unusual.  I think we need to try to look
>as normal as possible from the outside.  I'm sure a LOT of people
>disagree with me on that.  
>
>So i think what you are saying is that we need to add a whole bunch of
>stuff to the page?
>
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
> MARTIN DIXON wrote
> 
>
>
>Footers accepted I note that the Link (Legal) appears in the URL
>https://help.ubuntu.com/legal.html 
>
>but unlike the other two (links in the footer) not in the title of the
>page - Credits and License.
>
>As Open Source has a totally different "legal" to other proprietary
>'offerings'
>I found this confusing - could the link Legal be changed to Credits and
>License?
>
>Martin
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