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[Rick Spencer <rick.spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 10:08 -0600, Belinda Lopez wrote:
> Thanks everyone for their input on the toolchain options.  I think
> these will always be evolving and improving so trying to strike a
> balance btwn today's tool and tomorrow's requires some compromises.
> The big picture is that the work will ultimately be housed on the
> developer.ubuntu.com website, "published" once per cycle via either a
> manual or (hopefully) an automated process, that grabs the latest
> version of the bzr branch then outputs it to html on the site and also
> offers a "Download it all" PDF button.  I'm confident we'll have a
> good base document for this cycle so that future updates will be
> relatively easy for contributors.  I really like the concept of
> removing all the background work of having to setup a toolchain or do
> any markup from authors so I'm glad we've been able to do that this
> cycle.  
> 
> We're not too far off our original schedule, the remaining looks like
> this:
> 
> Monday 31 - Second draft of each chapter due, image placeholders &
> captions for all screenshots 
It seems like we are a bit behind on this, right? Are first drafts of
each chapter in?

> Monday 31 Jan - 5 February - Copy editing, docbook conversion,
> document new toolchain, create new docbook branch
> Monday 7 -19 February - Proofreading/QA, feedback incorporated
> Monday 21 Feb - Incorporate screenshots, any other graphics, cover
> design (24 Feb-Natty Feature Freeze)
> Monday 28 Feb - Final QA, formatting fixes, Branch fixes
> Friday 12 March - Version 1.0 released to public
> 14 - 31 March - Marketing & distribution push - blogs, other online
> free bookstores
> 
> So I'd like to propose that authors upload or send me any
> revised/additional text asap and I'll start working on the conversion
> to docbook as I'm editing this week.  I will also take the action of
> doing the screenshots for the current draft and watermark them with
> "DRAFT" until Feature Freeze.  There are 38 so far.
> 
> As for content: 
>       *  Rick needs to review Widgets and Indicators.  You also
>         mentioned reworking the multimedia section?
I think the multimedia section is nearly done. I need to rework the
"creating widgets on the fly" section (I have some work done but not
merged yet) and the working with Glade chapter. I also need to add a
couple of things to the Python appendix.