On 12 April 2011 23:46, Kyle Nitzsche <[email protected]> wrote:
> It raises the question: is content being driven by the toolchain (Gnome
> 3 Yelp uses Mallard, whereas Maverick Ubuntu Help Center uses docbook)?

No, it's not. We have adopted this approach because (a) the Gnome 3
experience is closer to Unity than the Gnome 2 experience that our
previous documentation reflected, and (b) Gnome upstream have produced
some outstanding help over the last release which is much more user
friendly and helpful than our own. The fact that the toolchain has
been changed to improve the quality of the help being provided is a
bonus, but it's not the driver.

I don't know whether this approach will be possible for future
releases. It will depend, among other things, on how far Ubuntu
diverges from Gnome.

The approach we've adopted won't result in perfect help but it is the
best we can do with limited time, inclination and resources to write
our own help from scratch. Even if we had done so, then I am confident
that the approach taken by Gnome upstream is the right one which we
would have mirrored for reasons which we have discussed on the mailing
list many times.

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF

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