On Friday 10 June 2005 13:14, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > This is because the way we current handle documentation packages is > just plain wrong. It should be possible to upload documentation > packages directly to testing and have them installed just prior to > release. Look at the mess with doc-debian, for an example of the issues > here. That means DDP as a project needs serious revival and is outside the scope of this request. > I'd rather have documentation packages treated differently in order to > be able to have a "documentation freeze" followed by a "translation > freeze" prior to release and not have the need to plan that a few > months in advance (the regular freeze). If that would be OK'ed by ftp masters and release managers, then I agree that packaging the release notes would make sense. > In any case, I still think it would be best to have a 'doc.debian.org' > pseudo package and have the Release Notes (or any other documentation) > use that as BTS placeholder. You could ask people to prepend bugs > reports (or retitle them) with the name of the document in order to > distinguish which document does it apply to. That would allow > documentation contributors to quickly review the bugs in all our ddp > documentation instead of having to browse through 10+ bug pages > (doc-debian, java-common, harden-doc, release-notes, etc.) Again I have to disagree with you. The documentation you name is all already packaged and so bug reports can (and should) already be filed against the individual packages. Therefore I see no reason for a 'doc.debian.org' pseudo package. If you know of other documentation besides the Release Notes that is currently _not_ packaged, then it might make sense to use a more general name. If not, I'd still prefer a pseudo package "release-notes". If you want to make DDP bugs more easily accessible in the BTS, I would suggest setting the maintainer of all DDP packages to "debian-doc@l.d.o" and setting current individual maintainers as uploader and having them subscribe to also receive the bug reports. That would mean you can get an overview over all DDP bugs using: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=debian-doc@lists.debian.org Cheers, Frans
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