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[Daniel Schury <Surst@xxxxxxx>]

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The point is, developing software isn't the same as writing a manual. If
you change some code, nobody will notice, if it was not a big bug. But
if you change just two letters in the manual, In worst case around 5-7
sentences have to be translated again. In every language. And believe
me, it gets really annoying for a translator, if you translate the same
thing over and over again. There _must_ be one point where it's said:
"No changes anymore, we have to live with the existing errors". Then,
after the manual was released (or even during, but in another branch)
you can make changes again.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Daniel Schury

Am 11.04.2010 14:41, schrieb Radu Cotescu:
> Hello Benjamin, all,
> 
> On a total unrelated topic with your previous email, I would like to get
> a sense of the freeze regarding the Ubuntu Manual. While I was working
> for Oracle, the code freeze was defined as a stage where nobody was
> allowed to add new features to a product but was allowed to fix bugs in
> that code. My opinion is that it would be wrong not to fix obvious bugs
> in the manual (misspelled words, phrases without an obvious sense,
> screenshots that don't reflect reality and so on). We are not adding new
> features, we are just fixing stuff so that the manual will be near
> perfect on the 29th. Basically we are not going to talk about new topics
> but just arrange them so that they don't confuse the new user.
> 
> Being an Ubuntu user since 6.10 and experiencing a lot of stages in my
> Linux experience (n00b, almost n00b, frustrated user, medium experience,
> advanced and now a constant author for Ubuntu articles in Linux
> Identity), I've always been looking for proper documentation regarding
> this wonderful OS. And every time that documentation failed to correctly
> exemplify something I felt awkward. It gave me an impression of
> improvisation and not of professionally developed software. I know that
> the Ubuntu Manual isn't an API documentation or something like that, but
> I still would like it to be 99.99% correct when providing instructions
> to the new users.
> 
> While this manual was not my idea, I am very happy that I can contribute
> to it in my spare time and help new users change their OS without
> efforts. Switching to Linux from any other OS should be done fast and
> without problems. A *good* manual will definitely give Ubuntu more
> users. A poor one will just be another guide about Ubuntu.
> 
> Just my 2 cents...
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Best regards,
> Radu
> 
> On 04/11/2010 11:05 AM, Benjamin Humphrey wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Currently I'm working on the final credits list for the website and
>> the credits page in the PDF. Below is a list of people I have so far.
>> If you are NOT on this list and you think you deserve to be, please
>> email me ASAP with your full name (in english characters) and a brief
>> summary of what you've done for the project. Thanks!
>>
>> Ubuntu Manual Project credits
>>
>> Website
>>
>> Contributors
>>
>> Benjamin Humphrey - Team Lead
>> Kevin Godby - Lead TeXnician
>> Jamin Day - Head of Editing
>> Ilya Haykinson - Authors coordinator
>> Josh Holland - Translation maintenance
>> Thorsten Wilms - Artwork
>> Adnane Belmadiaf - Web development
>> Luke Jennings - Quickshot development
>> Neil Tallim - Quickshot development
>> Simon Vermeersh - Quickshot development
>>
>> Special Thanks
>>
>> Joey-Elijah Alexithymia
>> Vytautas Bačiulis
>> Jono Bacon
>> Dmitry Belonogov
>> Bryan Behrenshausen
>> Joe Burgess
>> Thomas Cantera
>> Francisco Dieguez
>> Kelvin Gardiner
>> André Gondim
>> Matt Griffin
>> Jiri Grönroos
>> Wolter Hellmund
>> Mohamad Imran Ishak
>> Chris Johnson
>> Martin Kaba
>> The KanchiLUG Tamil translating team
>> Kentaro Kazuhama
>> James Kelly
>> George Kontis
>> Elan Kugelmass
>> Elizabeth Krumbach
>> Shushi Kurose
>> Josh Leverette
>> Martin Lukeš
>> Ryan Macnish
>> Walter Méndez
>> Anwar Mohammed
>> Abhijit Navale
>> Martin Owens
>> Tim Penhey
>> Andy Piper
>> Alan Pope
>> Robert Readman
>> Roth Robert
>> Anmol Sarma
>> Daniel Schury
>> Paulius Sladkevicius
>> Pierre Slamich
>> Frederik Sudmann
>> Muhd Syazwan
>> Matthew Paul Thomas
>> The Ubuntu Documentation Team
>> The Ubuntu Community Learning Project
>> Ralph Ulrich
>>
>> -- 
>> Benjamin Humphrey
>>
>> Ubuntu Manual Team Lead
>> Dunedin, New Zealand
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu-manual.org
>> www.interesting.co.nz <http://www.interesting.co.nz>
>>
>>
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> 
> -- 
> Radu Cotescu <http://radu.cotescu.com>
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