Official vs. community

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Is it that "Official" needs to be a lot more static to avoid problems
tracking translations?

If so i take that there has been quite a bit of stress about which pages
really are needed and which can be moved off into the community wiki?

"Base" would have been quite good imo except that the name clashes with
LibreOffice/OpenOffice's database program but i am not sure that is
something to worry about.  Would a clash like that be bad or fairly
harmless (and possibly unavoidable anyway).  I don't think there are any
seriously bad negative connotations for native-English speakers, at least -
not very bad.

Regards from
Tom :)




On 7 August 2014 22:51, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Just read the log from yesterday's meeting.
>
>
> http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting-2/2014/ubuntu-meeting-2.2014-08-06-17.01.moin.txt
>
> One thing that caught my interest was the discussion on how we refer to
> the various type of help resources.
>
> As regards the "official" desktop and server docs, it's true that they
> are typically not written and maintained by Canonical staff, but by
> volunteer community members. In that sense they are just as much
> "community" resources as the help wiki.
>
> There are comments in the log which indicate that the term "official" in
> itself deters people from contributing. Maybe we should stop using the
> term "official" when referring to documentation. "Base documentation" or
> just "Documentation" (which gets translated) and "Help wiki" is one
> thought.
>
> As regards the desktop guide, there is one thing that actually makes it
> "official" in a sense: It's included as a package with all installations
> of the Ubuntu desktop, and thus subject to Canonical's support
> commitment. OTOH, it does not mean that we have to refer to it as
> "official" everywhere.
>
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