[desktop] ubuntu-docs branch ready for yakkety

[Doug Smythies]

On 2106.06.17 09:06 Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> On 2016-06-17 16:45, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
>> One of the big things that should be coming up for 16.10 is that we
>> want to ship Unity 8 as a (non-default) alternative login shell
>> alongside Unity 7.  I'd really like to see if we can get the ball
>> rolling *now* on providing some good user docs for the Unity 8
>> desktop where possible, although I'm not sure how docs will be made
>> available yet.
>
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help> currently consists of a few
> highlighted pages plus 10 sections of documents which detail various
> aspects of the desktop. One idea, for now, is to create a highlighted
> Unity 8 page and, if enough contents can be written within 3 months, an
> additional section.

Interesting. I had always assumed that whenever Unity 8 stuff came, that
It would be added as a selection option one level higher, i.e. here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/ and the package version would be completely
independent. Your idea might be much easier to implement.

>
>> My bigger concern is content at this point.
>
> And if using the existing branch that way, the docs team could help with
> getting the pages in the correct format and reasonably structured, while
> the Unity 8 devs and volunteer contributors could focus on the contents.

We can setup preliminary 16.10 publication on help.ubuntu.com, even with
placeholders, for pending content anytime. (Typically we do it about a month
before string freeze, but that has never been some rule.)

... Doug