Ubuntu Serverguide - pending point release for 18.04 will be in English only.

[Frank Heimes]

Hi Doug,
glad to hear about the move to git - already any more details on the
'markup' language?
And do you think if the other guides will follow this approach as well -
like especially installation guide ?

BR, Frank


On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 6:33 PM Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> In a few days help.ubuntu.com will be updated with
> a point release of the 18.04 Serverguide.
>
> Only the US-English version will be published.
>
> Why?
>
> It is likely that for the 20.04 LTS release, the Serverguide
> source code will be changed to git based version control and
> some sort of markup language, moving away from docbook and the
> current workflow. Currently, translations are not part of the new
> project.
>
> For the Serverguide, all of our feedback has been that other
> languages are not needed. The objective here is to avoid a
> big issue when these changes occur for 20.04 by forcing feedback
> now, if someone really cares and notices.
>
> ... Doug
>
> References (some not all):
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2018-October/007514.html
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2018-October/007515.html
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2018-October/007518.html
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2017-December/007428.html
>
>
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