[desktop] Call for help

[Aaron Honeycutt]

I know it is a bit late but getting a mini sprint over IRC or
Mumble/Hangout could hit this out of the park when it comes to work getting
down.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016, 2:21 PM Mark Guthart <mguthart at g4international.com>
wrote:

> Hello Gunnar, and thank you for reaching out. I am happy to help
> contribute and agree that resurrecting the "What's new" page would be
> beneficial.
>
> For anyone else interested in contributing, let's make sure to coordinate
> so we aren't duplicating efforts.
>
> Mark A. Guthart
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> "DocumentationStringFreeze", i.e. the date after which no further
>> changes to the translatable desktop documentation strings should be
>> made, is March 17.
>>
>> The naked truth about the status of the desktop docs (the ubuntu-docs
>> package and Bazaar branch) is that its contents haven't been changed the
>> last year. OTOH, since much of the development is focused on Ubuntu
>> Touch, the visible changes to the Ubuntu desktop haven't been very
>> extensive lately. I still can't help fearing that some parts of the
>> desktop docs include information which is out of date.
>>
>> It would be great if a few persons, who read this, could spend a few
>> hours the next 7 days with reviewing the desktop docs, and at first hand
>> identify out of date contents. You can report your findings in several
>> ways:
>>
>> * Merge proposals stating exact proposed changes
>> * Bug reports
>> * Posts to this list
>>
>> It would also be nice if the "What's new" page could resurrect this
>> cycle. In 14.04 it had this contents:
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/ubuntu-help/whats-new.html
>>
>> But for that we'll need input from someone who has the big picture.
>> @Stephen, could you possibly write down a few highlights of changes
>> between 14.04 and 16.04?
>>
>> Let's try to make an effort, so the desktop docs we ship with 16.04 is
>> reasonably up-to-date. Please reply to this, if you need clarifications.
>> I'll do my best to answer.
>>
>> --
>> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
>> https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj
>>
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