-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi: On 04/15/2013 09:25 AM, Ben Cotton wrote: > I really like the idea of having a User Guide, even if it is a > duplication of some information. It makes the distro more > approachable to newer users. On the other hand, the "current" User > Guide is quite a behemoth, which makes it hard to maintain. When > major changes like Gnome 3 happen, it's even worse. > > I'd be okay with pulling the plug on the User Guide. > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Petr Kovar <pkovar@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> During the docs meeting last week, we discussed deprecating the >> Fedora User Guide. This guide has not been updated since F14 (so >> it still documents GNOME 2 etc.) and has no active maintainer. >> There are several bugs open against the guide, but nobody is >> working on them. >> >> In the current form, the guide pretty much duplicates end-user >> help for individual desktop environments and applications >> available on Fedora, so I propose to formally deprecate the guide >> and close the bugs. I'm not really sure what "formally deprecate" means. If there is no active maintainer, and the Guide hasn't been published since Fedora 14, then is it not already practically deprecated, in the sense that any interested party will realize we are not actively updating and maintaining it? If, after we formally deprecate the User Guide, somebody came along and wanted to make significant revisions, would we say "no?" Hopefully not. So I guess this just means that we'll close active bugs with an explanation of "the User Guide is deprecated and will not be updated in the near future." This makes a certain amount of sense, and we could even do it for other Guides that have fallen behind, if there are any. Is this an accurate understanding of the situation? Christopher -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRbFE8AAoJEGpo1cWDqVnY2TAP/1MEDAgNTrkx2RG4suFIZEYY eWYd7A8uz7qhOuB93JGqbnvI7qycvKPhH0H0FO7UJLWjoCgxZJzi9V4Aspc8eg1i H77/CDwaCk5zfQcsTZeMSPW3/Rmji2hW+cinIkGuHiTzT0JYdV3HekocDgNfScbr QXg3W8ifXiUai2F9ZfeTUxgOTk6t7HYkznlDLvaaIlPCP3afh83tr32zFfxzEIOX xrwX36V+KN191ZZeymWvglbiYRSgWrCJpWFEb7fmOu6fFAW5FfCeTCzB1k9wI1C7 sWgddjE8E0dB+Ybzd1vk/ZFlbmHzCPIvM1+TaIjkaKhyyRzo3IZGJxQU/8Z4vG+L pol5INTILftqpybRSHONm1DwDMJ6RoZwCrAFX99g+QrkQpQu4Z+bSJSf5ZCXmIrK WVhBIRZ3PVI11jrV1K/t/fTiMyM2hbnB5LxKafvEQVncuwyFraXcZvdEu1k7UInn mLRVlOab+pRJkJD3z2N7Be05J2EmTwmRgkLkBU8os4omlDReliStSaC7yQ+7yQlC psyOynlKZ3p2RhSpT5SGv3KbXOGh2JmvM4WDd2DD12qJDiRLZkQGZqy+ZtU7r9EK km4812e1GHsYx75ijNFbipzctN8YNPVY65xEnl+oOsLcD3cU1iLNGAAaZ3CqcptA g1fjHujy51exl+gM7R8P =R77n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
