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[jeffrey Flaker <jflaker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Question though......How much changes on a regular release that is no
longer applicable to an LTS release?  I ask as I've seen solutions on
ubuntu forums that still are applicable or are close.


On 10/19/2014 12:02 PM, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote:
> To all,
> After the previous discussion "where do we go from here?" I think we
> can conclude that we now have enough active members to continue with
> the Ubuntu Manual Project. Thanks to all of you who are willing to
> continue or start to contribute.
> The next question is: will we continue to publish all versions, or
> only LTS. I want to bring this to a vote. Below [1]  you find a list
> of all the active members we have at this moment. If you see your name
> on this list, please vote for either all versions or LTS only. Of
> course, if your name is not on the list you may vote too, but then we
> expect you to be an active member. Some of you have already responded
> on this subject, but it would be better if each one of you sends
> his/her vote to our list like this:
> Name    LTS only    Comment (optional)
> or
> Name    all versions    Comment (optional)
>
> Depending on the result, we will have to adjust our shared spreadsheet
> (see my previous comment on this). I also want to suggest that, in the
> future, we have one person - author/editor - responsible for a chapter
> or section(s). We will not have enough contributors to let each
> chapter/section have both an author and an editor.
>
> Below [2] you find some of my thoughts on what to do if we opt for LTS
> only. Please feel free to add your comment.
>
> Hannie
>
> [1]
> Sylvie Gallet
> Mehmet Kani
> Thomas Corwin
> Kevin Godby
> Patick Dickey
> Sayantan Das
> Hannie Dumoleyn
> Mehmet Atun
> Jeffrey Flaker
> Michel Memeteau
> Cliff Barnes
> Sneha Gopinath
>
> [2]
> LTS only:
> Make new shared document: author/editor one job
> only important chapters/sections (Prologue, Learning More, and a few
> other chapters will hardly change)
> bug fixing (this can be done between LTS versions)
> post "What's new" on ML regularly (if you have found something new in
> a standard versions, please report it)
> LTS 14.04 2nd edition (this was suggested by Sylvie, and it is a good
> idea. Kevin is willing to publish a second edition and he can add a
> new branch to LP)
>
>
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