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Re: On cadence and collaboration



Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 18:01 +0200 schrieb Marc Haber:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 04:25:47PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > GRUB 2 is going to be another opportunity where Ubuntu can prove
> > either useful or detrimental to your stated goals: invest time to
> > polish it and contribute back to the upstream; or use it raw as it is
> > and leave the user with the shards if it breaks. The upstream
> > abandoned GRUB 1, GRUB 2 isn't ready.
> 
> This is a good point where people can actually help: GRUB 2 is,
> besides all other shortcomings, severely underdocumented. Ubuntu
> as a very user-friendly distribution probably has skilled writers at
> hand - task some of them to produce useable documentation on GRUB 2.
> 

But please note that if you want to help with an official GRUB 2 manual,
then everyone needs to assign copyright to FSF.


-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer


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