Building help.ubuntu.com

[Doug Smythies]

On 2016.09.26 19:10 Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> On 2016-09-27 03:31, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>>> While what you say sounds right, it also brings some anxiety to me.
>>> I'm not quite sure of what "replaced by a maintained upstream
>>> project" implies.
>> 
>> I think there's a bit of miscommunication here. I think Shaun is
>> just talking about publishing the Help content to the website, not
>> changing the documentation shipped in the Ubuntu isos.
>
> Yeah, I think I got that.

Me too.

> And as you said it's currently done in two steps:
>
> 1. Build the HTML from respective branch
> 2. Manually copy the result to the help.ubuntu.com branch from where
>   it's automatically copied to the site via a cron script.
>
> Maybe I'm worrying unnecessarily. :) But I still would appreciate a
> meeting to clarify a few things before a lot of work is done.

Perhaps we can meet sometime on the docs IRC channel.
I do not hang out there, but can go on as required.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 15:09 PM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Doc writers shouldn't have to spend their time doing ops work.

The infrastructure and workflow is actually what I am interested in.
I am not a doc writer.

... Doug