<div>On 6/15/08, Jim Campbell <<a href="mailto:jwcampbell@gmail.com">jwcampbell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi All, Cody and I have chatted a bit about possibly using yelp in Xubuntu for Xubuntu documentation. As a documentor, I have to be in favor of this at this point. Ubuntu documentation gets more and more contributors every day, and they're doing some pretty neat things for Ubuntu documentation, including separate sections for trouble-shooting for common problems. Plus, with so many contributors, they're able to easily keep up with the ongoing changes in how Ubuntu works. As it stands now, keeping up with the changes in Ubuntu documentation in Xubuntu would be difficult because of how our documentation files are structured differently. Basically, because Xubuntu has used Firefox, we've had to make our documentation one large meta-document, this is technically not correct from a docbook standpoint, and having a different structure makes adapting changes from Ubuntu documentation more time-consuming than it should be. It took a lot of time to adapt the Ubuntu documentation from Gutsy for Hardy, and I don't think it would be a good idea to try to do the same thing from one release to another, only to have our docs outdated every time we go to update them. Adapting from the current ubuntu docs would allow us to focus on providing better documentation of xfce-specific modules, and then bring in all of the shared *buntu documentation when it was fleshed-out for the current release. Keeping up on any doc bug fixes from Ubuntu would be easy. According to Cody, yelp doesn't use the heavier gnome-libs anymore, and as far as I know, any additional libraries that yelp uses would just be loaded at runtime. We could use some profiling-foo to see the full impact of yelp, though. As an additional note, the xubuntu-doc-browser from the Gutsy cycle was only being developed to present html files, and wouldn't really fix the issue here. Yelp uses xml files with yelp-specific "ghelp" links within the documentation, and the doc-browser was being developed to display html pages. Anyway, let me know what you think. Thanks,</blockquote><div> If it makes your life easier, then go for it :) </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Jim </blockquote></div> -- Vincent