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[Jason Odoom <jasonodoom@xxxxxxxxx>]

*Hi Ben,*

Seems good but its kind of disappointing  not releasing the Mnual every 6
months. We can also keep a copy that can be read (without download) online,
using the "Google
translator<http://translate.google.com/about/intl/en_ALL/tour.html#professional>"
widget, readers can change the language. Instead of killing translation for
the Manual.

Jason Odoom
www.google.com/profiles/jasonodoom



On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I don't have much time to write a lengthy email so this is going to be
> to the point. As everyone will know, the last 4 months in this team
> have been terrible - we've been getting nothing done, the manual for
> Maverick is still not out and we're not moving forward. This is
> combination of a few things, myself and a lot of the core contributors
> have been extremely busy in the second half of 2010, we've been
> pushing hard for the Lucid manual and some of us might be a bit burnt
> out, our barrier for new contributors is way too high and the demand
> for a new manual every 6 months, plus translations and screenshots is
> just too much for the team to handle without full time contributors.
>
> Rather than see the team disintegrate, which would be terrible, I
> figure we need to slim our goals down a bit and perhaps give us a
> greater time span to work in. Hence I propose one (or both) of the
> following:
>
> * Not releasing the manual for every release, but perhaps only .04
> releases (yearly) or only LTS releases (every two years).
> * Releasing only in English, at least until we have a better
> infrastructure for translations
>
> My preference would be the first option. I feel that it's not
> necessary for us to have a new manual every 6 months, what with the
> large amount of documentation and support elsewhere and the fact that
> not enough changes every six months to justify a new book. I think
> that having our material in other languages is important, but it's
> difficult to coordinate such a mammoth task when we have very limited
> infrastructure for translation this amount of text.
>
> I believe if we toned down our lofty release goals, we'll have more
> time to work on things like the Support and Learning Center, the
> personas, quickstart booklets and other things, giving us a better,
> more complete and concise product overall, even if it was released
> less regularly.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts. We should also have a meeting soon.
>
> --
> Benjamin Humphrey
> interesting.co.nz
> ohso.co
>
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