I have been thinking quite a lot about the idea of doing a new manual only for the LTS release. This could be a reasonable idea considering the amount of time and effort involved in writing a manual.<div><br></div><div>In addition to the LTS manual, it might be worth doing a New Features guide every release that just contains changes since the LTS. Obviously this would be a lot shorter than a full manual release, so should be easier to do. Maybe just containing an updated installation chapter and a chapter about other new features. Considering that with 11.04 the default interface is changing to unity, it might be useful.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Let me know what you think?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 November 2010 11:02, Anton Meixome <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meixome@certima.net">meixome@certima.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I agree too as translator (Galician). Manual only for LTS is<br>
sufficient, and gives a window time for capitalize the effort.<br>
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Antón<br>
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2010/11/1 Hannie Lafeber-Dumoleyn <<a href="mailto:lafeber-dumoleyn2@zonnet.nl">lafeber-dumoleyn2@zonnet.nl</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Let me react on this as a translator (Dutch). I totally agree with your<br>
> proposal to release the manual once a year, or even only for the LTS<br>
> versions. To us translators every 6 months is also a bit too much. The lucid<br>
> version is a very good manual for people who are new to Ubuntu, even if they<br>
> are using Maverick at the moment. We are about to release the lucid version<br>
> in Dutch (waiting for the quickshot server to work again).<br>
> Regards,<br>
> Hannie Dumoleyn<br>
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>> Hey guys,<br>
>><br>
>> I don't have much time to write a lengthy email so this is going to be<br>
>> to the point. As everyone will know, the last 4 months in this team<br>
>> have been terrible - we've been getting nothing done, the manual for<br>
>> Maverick is still not out and we're not moving forward. This is<br>
>> combination of a few things, myself and a lot of the core contributors<br>
>> have been extremely busy in the second half of 2010, we've been<br>
>> pushing hard for the Lucid manual and some of us might be a bit burnt<br>
>> out, our barrier for new contributors is way too high and the demand<br>
>> for a new manual every 6 months, plus translations and screenshots is<br>
>> just too much for the team to handle without full time contributors.<br>
>><br>
>> Rather than see the team disintegrate, which would be terrible, I<br>
>> figure we need to slim our goals down a bit and perhaps give us a<br>
>> greater time span to work in. Hence I propose one (or both) of the<br>
>> following:<br>
>><br>
>> * Not releasing the manual for every release, but perhaps only .04<br>
>> releases (yearly) or only LTS releases (every two years).<br>
>> * Releasing only in English, at least until we have a better<br>
>> infrastructure for translations<br>
>><br>
>> My preference would be the first option. I feel that it's not<br>
>> necessary for us to have a new manual every 6 months, what with the<br>
>> large amount of documentation and support elsewhere and the fact that<br>
>> not enough changes every six months to justify a new book. I think<br>
>> that having our material in other languages is important, but it's<br>
>> difficult to coordinate such a mammoth task when we have very limited<br>
>> infrastructure for translation this amount of text.<br>
>><br>
>> I believe if we toned down our lofty release goals, we'll have more<br>
>> time to work on things like the Support and Learning Center, the<br>
>> personas, quickstart booklets and other things, giving us a better,<br>
>> more complete and concise product overall, even if it was released<br>
>> less regularly.<br>
>><br>
>> Please let me know your thoughts. We should also have a meeting soon.<br>
>><br>
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