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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 16. april 2012 22:56, skrev Chris:
> Just a quick note on this subject: you say drop everything below 
> 12.04LTS but what about support for 8.04LTS Server and 10.04LTS 
> Desktop and Server? And not to forget the previous two releases? All 
> of those are still supported. I'm not quite sure what you want to 
> achieve with this suggested change, but that is probably to my poor 
> understanding of your suggestion.
> I'll have another read in the morning, I hope to make some heads and 
> tails out of your suggestion.
Nice catch. When I say "drop", I don't mean "delete". What I mean is 
when new users come to Ubuntu, they will come to 12.04LTS. They should 
be told to only consider 12.04 documentation. Because if you search for 
information about how to do something in Ubuntu, then you _will_ get 
confused. You might get a link to a howto for Ubuntu 5.04, for instance. 
Or 6.06. Much, if not most, of it is completely irrelevant.
So I'm talking about "from here on" and "in the new Ubuntu". Of course, 
people who are using older versions of Ubuntu must still use older 
documentation. We can't dictate the web anyway. What we can do, is 
teach, communicate and provide good documentation for all aspects of 
Ubuntu. But in order for that to happen, we need a comprehensible 
system; for documenters, developers, and users.
Jo-Erlend Schinstad