Hey Matthew,<div><br></div><div>Seems like the best long term option for the Server Guide is option 2, so I think we should focus discussion on it... at least until a major problem turns up, or something else blocks progress :-).</div>
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2. We could take the serverguide out of the ubuntu-docs bzr branch /<br>
source package, and put it in its own bzr branch which wouldn't be a<br>
source package and which wouldn't have the same constraints. That<br>
would raise some process issues about how the docteam would manage the<br>
separate branch and translations of the guide, which is a conversation<br>
I'm happy to have, but equally would be quite a big change so we<br>
should discuss it carefully. Possible disadvantages might include<br>
having to manage different processes for different documents; and<br>
potential divergence of common files used (such as those in the "libs"<br>
folder).<br><br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><br>I think it should be pretty easy to keep the libs directory synced between a serverguide branch and the main ubuntu-docs branch. I imagine bzr merge will come in quite handy for this. The process should work pretty easy between all common files. I don't like duplication much... maybe a Makefile statement can handle the merge, or some other automated process.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Seems like overall the process for contributing to the serverguide branch will be very similar to the ubuntu-docs branch as well. We'll need to update the instructions in the wiki, but hopefully it won't be too complicated for new contributors.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Another idea that comes to mind is potentially adding some type of shell script to the ubuntu-docs package that would create a local branch. Something like:</div><div><br></div><div> ubuntu-docs get source</div>
<div> ubuntu-docs get serverguide</div><div> ubuntu-docs get kubuntu-docs</div><div><br></div><div>That would probably require the ubuntu-docs package to require bzr, so maybe not such a great idea. And it's sort of getting off topic :-).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm fuzzy on the translations aspect... what issues can you see with creating a separate serverguide branch? I imagine that would require them to look into two different places for translations?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for you feedback Matthew.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Party On,<br>Adam<br>
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