[desktop] Doc string freeze for Yakkety tomorrow

[Chris Perry]

Hi Gunnar

Thanks for your reply. Regarding the 16.04 help. Yes I can see any
updates to the 16.04 help would need to be translated (into dozens of
languages?). On the other hand the 16.04 help does contain some
significant errors/omissions (in my opinion) - but not "exceptionally
bad errors"? And we can't correct them! (Sorry, I'm not criticising
you. Presumably this situation has been the case since the first
Ubuntu release?)

Regards,

Chris.



On 20 September 2016 at 11:35, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 2016-09-20 11:41, Chris Perry wrote:
>> I noticed that this page (link below) says 16.10 is an LTS (about six
>> lines from the top) - but it's not. I can't edit the page. Can you
>> correct it?
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/
>
> Fixed. (Should be visible in a couple of hours.) Thanks for pointing it out!
>
>> On a separate point, some of the changes you made to create the
>> 16.10 help also need to be made to the 16.04 help (and 14.04 help and
>> 12.04 help?).
>
> While that would be desirable, we usually only make corrections in the
> current development version. The reason is that the docs are translated,
> and given the way the whole thing is set up, it would mean too much work
> to be worth it. (Exceptions *can* be made for exceptionally bad errors.)
>
> One nice way to refer to the desktop guide is to use this URL:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/
> ------------------------^^^^^^
>
> It refers to the last released Ubuntu version, so once 16.10 has been
> released, that URL will point to the 16.10 docs.
>
> --
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj