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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kate,

that is one impressive template! Many thanks. As you can see, I've asked
the various lubuntu teams to give thier input & ensure everyone is aware of
its existance.

Regards,

Phill.

On 20 April 2012 08:16, Kate Stewart <kate.stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Ubuntu Documentation Team Members, ....
>
>    We've now started producing the release candidates, so the content
> is pretty much settled (baring bug fixes and last minute security
> updates... ;) ).   Release Note content is coming in from the leads, and
> all the products have their own pages now at [1].  Goal is to have the
> release notes final by Wednesday next week.
>
>    Anyone willing to help with editorial passes would be very welcome.
> Content will continue being added over next week (bugs and refining
> features), but a starting point is now in place.
>
>    What would be really cool, is if these release notes could contain
> pointers to key sections in the documentation that's been generated for
> this release.   Is this possible?  Volunteers?
>
>    If anyone spots highlights that should be added to them in terms of
> the features,  please feel free to add it in to the appropriate page.
>
> Thanks,  Kate
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 20:30 -0500, Kate Stewart wrote:
> > Dear Ubuntu Documentation Team Members,
> >
> >    Rather than wait to the last minute, we're trying something different
> > this release... getting most of the release notes done BEFORE we come to
> > the release candidate week. ;)  Many thank you's to those who helped out
> > at the last minute and did some editorial passes, hopefully this time
> > there will be a little more time to polish and add useful content.
> >
> >    The framework for the release notes is now up [1], and will be filled
> > in over the next month or so, as content emerges.  Right now its a
> > little sparse,  I'll be finishing consolidating the input from the alpha
> > and beta milestones in it this week.  During the last week before the
> > release,  we'll hopefully only have to be adding those bugs that we just
> > couldn't fix in time.  The week by week plan from now until the end of
> > the release for the release notes is available [2].
> >
> >    For those who are able to help out this cycle, there is a sign up
> > sheet at the bottom of the plan [2].  Help would be most welcome in the
> > following areas:
> >  * Summarizing changes between the 10.04 LTS and this release
> >  * Providing links to more detailed documentation so folks can just
> >    click to learn more about a new feature.
> >  * Improving the descriptions of new features from the user's
> >    perspective.
> >  * Improving the summary of the known bugs so it makes sense to
> >    a user, esp. when there is a workaround.
> >  * Editorial passes for spelling/grammar/coherence between the
> >    different pages.
> > Please add your name to the week you're able to help out on [2], so I
> > can let you know if anything changes/issues/etc.
> >
> > If you can think of other ways we can make these release notes better
> > please chime up on this thread.  :)   and thanks for any help you can
> > provide.
> >
> > Kate
> >
> > [1]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes
> > [2]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/Editors
>
>
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