On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Benjamin Drung <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Montag, den 17.12.2012, 16:01 -0500 schrieb Andrew Starr-Bochicchio: >> 1) Send a last-call anouncement to ubuntu-devel requesting bug reports >> about any missing material. Announce steps 2 and 3 will take place >> after one month. >> 2) Move the entire PackagingGuide wiki namespace en masse to >> PackagingGuideDeprecated. >> 3) Redirect wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide to >> developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/ >> 4) After six months (one full development cycle) >> PackagingGuideDeprecated will be deleted. >> >> This is the mail referred to in step 1. In one month, I will move the >> entire PackagingGuide wiki namespace enmass to >> PackagingGuideDeprecated and set up a redirect. If you feel that there >> are any critical pieces of information that are missing from the >> Sphinx-based Ubuntu Packaging Guide, now is the time to file bugs (and >> provide patches). [4] > > Will these bugs tracked and fixed before step four? We should only > remove the wiki based guide if all missing pieces from it are available > in the Sphinx-based packaging guide.
Hi Benjamin, We will obviously make a final review of the situation before before proceeding to delete the old content, and there will also be another UDS between now and then which will offer an opportunity for discussion. That said, I do think it is important to point out that "all missing pieces" will never be completely ported to the new guide. A large part of the reason for making the new guide in the first place has been to streamline it, making opinionated decisions of what to include, and eliminate the "choose your own adventure" style of the old guide. For instance, do we really need to discus desktop files and POD based manpages in the Packaging Guide? Even if some of that information is potentially useful, most of it has not been updated for quite a while and will be up dated even less frequently when it is less prominent. I have to agree with Jorge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT1yY78J9A0 Thanks, -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=asb> PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1 -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
