Hey guys, I don't have much time to write a lengthy email so this is going to be to the point. As everyone will know, the last 4 months in this team have been terrible - we've been getting nothing done, the manual for Maverick is still not out and we're not moving forward. This is combination of a few things, myself and a lot of the core contributors have been extremely busy in the second half of 2010, we've been pushing hard for the Lucid manual and some of us might be a bit burnt out, our barrier for new contributors is way too high and the demand for a new manual every 6 months, plus translations and screenshots is just too much for the team to handle without full time contributors.
Rather than see the team disintegrate, which would be terrible, I figure we need to slim our goals down a bit and perhaps give us a greater time span to work in. Hence I propose one (or both) of the following: * Not releasing the manual for every release, but perhaps only .04 releases (yearly) or only LTS releases (every two years). * Releasing only in English, at least until we have a better infrastructure for translations My preference would be the first option. I feel that it's not necessary for us to have a new manual every 6 months, what with the large amount of documentation and support elsewhere and the fact that not enough changes every six months to justify a new book. I think that having our material in other languages is important, but it's difficult to coordinate such a mammoth task when we have very limited infrastructure for translation this amount of text. I believe if we toned down our lofty release goals, we'll have more time to work on things like the Support and Learning Center, the personas, quickstart booklets and other things, giving us a better, more complete and concise product overall, even if it was released less regularly. Please let me know your thoughts. We should also have a meeting soon. -- Benjamin Humphrey interesting.co.nz ohso.co _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
