[kde-community] Kubuntu documentation

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dissabte, 14 de desembre de 2013, a les 12:33:20, Martin Graesslin va 
escriure:
> On Saturday 14 December 2013 12:13:10 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Dissabte, 14 de desembre de 2013, a les 11:35:23, Martin Graesslin va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > On Saturday 14 December 2013 01:54:50 Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > > 
> > > > Recently I wrote to the KDE Docs team and KDE WWW team asking for
> > > > permission to put working copies of the Kubuntu documentation on the
> > > > Userbase wiki. Albert raised an interesting objection, which I can
> > > > only bring to this group for discussion.
> > > > 
> > > > Kubuntu isn't a KDE project under the Manifesto definition. Even
> > > > though our users are by definition KDE users, it is true that all KDE
> > > > developers do not have write permissions to the Kubuntu codebase,
> > > > since our packages are hosted on Canonical servers.
> > > 
> > > I don't see the problem at the moment. Albert, could you please
> > > elaborate
> > > on your reasoning. For me it looks like KDE would just provide some more
> > > "source code" which can be packaged by the distribution.
> > 
> > Just that this "source code" will be distribution specific.
> 
> where's the difference to
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/sysadmin/muon 

Muon is technically not Ubuntu specific afaik.

> or all the *suse
> branches in svn/work?

Good question, otoh they predate the time were we add a Manifesto that helped 
us make these kind of decisions.

> I don't know the Kubuntu documentation, but apart from installation there
> should not be much which is Kubuntu specific. If it's about the applications
> it should be merged with the upstream documentation in my opinion. 

Agreed :-)

> Better
> docs for everyone :-) I just had a short look at http://docs.kubuntu.org
> and I'm quite sure that it could be reworked to not be Kubuntu specific.
> E.g. the Getting Involved could be rewritten to be generic for all
> distributions by having multiple sections:
> * Kubuntu
> * openSUSE
> * Arch
> * ...
> 
> Kubuntu could then just extract the relevant part for their documentation.
> Or am I missing something?

Nope. I was just a bit hesitant about using our wikis just as a dumping ground 
for stuff that would only end up in docs.kubuntu.org and on the kubuntu ISO.

But as I said if you read my emails, I'm not vetoing it, I am not sure even if 
I'm opossed, I just want the people that will take the decision to think about 
it.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers
> Martin
> 
> > You can see the original thread at
> > http://lists.kde.org/?t=138654918000002&r=1&w=2
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> >   
> > > That our
> > > repositories are used by distributions has always been the case and is
> > > also
> > > encouraged.
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > Martin
> > 
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