Members-Desktopguide

Revision 6 as of 2014-03-17 08:08:05

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This page offers guidance for documentation committers working with the desktop guide project. It is a supplement to the main Members page.

This page is not intended for desktop guide contributors, who should be using the desktop guide contributors focus page instead.

Preparations for new cycle

Soon after FinalRelease of an Ubuntu version, it's time to make some preparations for the next cycle.

  • Set up translations for the new development version project, and enable synchronization with the translations for the corresponding package version.
  • New version number in these files:
    • configure.in
    • html/Makefile
    • html/ubuntu.xsl

Releasing the ubuntu-docs package

Before DocumentationStringFreeze

There are some key steps that should be taken before DocumentationStringFreeze.

Update certain files

  • ubuntu-help/C/whats-new.page
  • debian/changelog
  • ubuntu-help/ubuntu-help.pot
    1. Run autogen.sh.
    2. (Re)move the old ubuntu-help.pot.
    3. Run the command 'make ubuntu-help.pot' from the ubuntu-help folder.

Upload to the archive

  • Build a source package from lp:ubuntu-docs and upload to the main archive. (Requires upload rights for ubuntu-docs.)

The new ubuntu-help.pot will be reflected in PO files that are exported from Rosetta.
lp:ubuntu/ubuntu-docs is updated automatically.

After NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline

NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline happens one week before FinalFreeze, so at this point we are in a hurry.