Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi all, > >As Daniel recently announce, the new Sphinx-based Ubuntu Packaging >Guide [0] has recently reached a major milestone. It is now fully >translated and available in Spanish. [1] Good progress is currently >being made on making it available in other languages as well. [2] >Another major milestone is on the horizon. We are about to take the >next step in phasing out the old wiki-based packaging guide >completely. > >At UDS-R, it was decided that the new guide has reached a mature >enough state to officially deprecate the wiki-based guide. [3] The >current plan is to: > >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] > >Many thanks to all the contributors who have helped to get the Ubuntu >Packaging Guide in such great shape! > >[0] http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/ >[1] >https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2012-December/000997.html >[2] https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-packaging-guide >[3] >https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-r-packaging-guide >[4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-packaging-guide/+filebug > >-- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio > > Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> > Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=asb> > PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1
UDD is not mature or reliable enough to be presented to new users as "the" way to do packaging for Ubuntu. I think the current guide is fatally flawed as is. As soon as a branch is out of date, new users are lost. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
