Le jeudi 05 juillet 2007 à 08:30 +0100, Matthew East a écrit : > Hi there, > > To: Gnome doc lists > Cc: Ubuntu Gnome maintainers, Ubuntu doc list > > I'm looking for some advice. > > In Ubuntu, during the last release we incorporated the Gnome user guide > into the structure of our documentation. This has the advantage that we > don't have to worry about recreating the wheel and can use the excellent > material from upstream. > > The basic problem we are having though is that Ubuntu customises quite a > lot of Gnome, and as a result the Gnome documentation is wrong, and we > need to correct it. An example is the layout of the System menu, which > in Ubuntu does not contain the screenshot/lockscreen buttons, but which > are part of vanilla Gnome and therefore documented in the Gnome user guide. > > The two possible ways of correcting these are: > > 1. Creating patches on the Gnome documentation in the Ubuntu packages of > gnome-user-docs. > 2. Creating a separate tree with a copy of the Gnome documentation (to > be updated from time to time) and shipping it separately in a new > package, or with the Ubuntu-specific documentation. > > Both of these strike me as being quite difficult to maintain. I've never > tried to maintain patches on documentation before but I bet it's pretty > difficult.
Hi, The copy doesn't really make sense. The easier way is easier to maintain a set of patches or a branch in bzr for the Ubuntu changes. I'm not sure if translated versions are generated at build time or every of them will also need patching though. Sebastien Bacher _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
