Fwd: Server Guide HTML

[Adam Sommer]

Hey all,

Here's a thread from the ubuntu-doc list about the ubuntu-serverguide
package.  The suggestion is to drop the package for the reasons given below.

I would like to solicit any feedback the Server Team has about the proposal.
 From the UDS-M discussion and IRC meetings the current consensus is to go
ahead and drop the package, but if someone has a reason to keep it I'd like
to give them a chance to be heard.

If we drop the ubuntu-serverguide package the Ubuntu Server Guide will still
be available in HTML and PDF format... just to clarify that we're not doing
away with the Server Guide.

Thanks all.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: Server Guide HTML
To: Adam Sommer <asommer70 at gmail.com>
Cc: ubuntu-doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>


Hi Adam,

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Adam Sommer <asommer70 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the HTML note, at
> the last UDS we discussed dropping the ubuntu-serverguide package, and
just
> keeping the HTML, PDF, and DocBook files up to date.

I don't really have a problem with this - I think that it should be
for the server team to decide what they would like to do about things
like this, and if the server team would like to drop the package,
that's no problem. It's important to me that the guide continues to
follow the same string freeze rules, to allow translators to have an
opportunity to ensure that the localisations of the guide are as up to
date as the English version, but you've indicated in your email that
this is the plan, so I'm happy.

If the serverguide html is no longer shipped in the desktop help
system, I wonder whether we should also have a conversation about
whether the advanced-topics document is still helpful. It provides
links to topics which desktop users probably won't use and may be
surplus to requirements. The one document that might conceivably still
be useful is the basic-commands document, but I personally think that
this document doesn't have too much relevance for a desktop help
system nowadays.

What do others think?

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Matthew East
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Adam
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