2010/9/4 Benjamin Humphrey <[email protected]> > Okay guys, typing this out rather quickly late on a Saturday night so bear > with me if it doesn't make sense. > > Let's get shit going! We only have less than week till our intended writing > freeze which doesn't give us much time to update the manual for Maverick! > Now that we've had the Beta, user interface and feature freezes, we can be > 99% sure a lot of the stuff will remain how it is, so let's get to work. > Being the cool guy I am, I'm going to try to lead by example - tomorrow I'll > pull the latest branch and start hacking away at each chapter. > > If someone could go through that pad (i've lost the link) of changes and > report each one as a bug, targeted to maverick, that would be excellent. > (Chris Woollard, Vish or nissh?) What else do we need to do.. here are some > jobs. Claim them. > > - Figure out who's still in the team and who's new to the team that > have been contributing this cycle and update the credits list > - Add more entries to the glossary (nissh!) > - Merge the terminal / security chapters (Kevin, looking at you) > - Quickshot team - what's the story? When can we start screenshotting? > - Someone needs to figure out translations and give us a report on > their status for Maverick > - Adnane has been working hard on the new Ubuntu Manual site which > should be done in time for October 10 (yay!), also, Brett Alton offered his > help, so he's going to work on the Quickshot site (double yay!) > - Thorsten - get to work on the title page, if we don't want a full > revamp, perhaps it could simply "evolve" somewhat. Evolution over > revolution, yes? > - When the writing freeze takes place we'll be doing mass crowd-source > style editing again - Josh Holland and Daker, make sure that bug reporting > form is working! > > Hate to sound bossy but we need to get a move on. I'll try to do the bulk > of the writing changes and bug fixing in the text, if the team can take care > of everything else around it. > > Go go go and *thank you so much!* > > -- > Benjamin Humphrey > > interesting.co.nz > ohso.co > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-manual> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-manual> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > Writing freeze in less than a week ... hm it may seem good to translators like me but the team doesn't have to do things in a hurry because of date. Write a good "Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.10" with no plans for second edition ;), the team was behind the schedule this time (i think) so the freeze date can be adjusted properly.
Keep it up guys ! -John
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