Re: [Fedora-music-list] Kick off Fedora 18 with a Bang!

[Christopher Antila]

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On 16 January 2013 09:38:03 Brendan Jones wrote:
>  On 01/15/2013 08:33 PM, Christopher Antila wrote:
>  > Now that Fedora 18 is released, I'm sure we're all wondering about the
>  > status of the Fedora Jam spin. I don't know anything about that.
>  > 
>  > But I *do* know about the Musicians' Guide, which I published for Fedora
>  > 18
>  > earlier today.
>  > 
>  > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Musicians_Guide/index.
>  > html
>  Thanks for doing this Chris! I have no idea how the docs team works and
>  thought that maybe the ship had sailed for F18 - this is good news. 
For future reference, here's how it works... and it's the same for any Guide 
(like the User Guide).

An author can publish their document in any available languages at any time 
for any release. Ideally, all of the Guides are updated before each release, 
then published on the same day as the release itself. In reality, the Guides 
are slowly updated, and *if* a Guide is published for a particular release, it 
will usually show up anywhere from a month before to a month after the release 
date.

We try to avoid updating the published books between releases. In my mind, the 
real reason is that it would make translation much more difficult: if we always 
keep the most recent English version in the translation system, it's changing 
too fast to complete a single, consistent translation. On the other hand, we 
could publish updated versions of the English only... but then that drifts 
away from any published non-English version, and could lead to confusion for 
readers who may be using both languages.

Furthermore, it leads to a situation that *looks like* the Fedora Project 
holding up English as the best or most important language, when really I think 
most of us simply mean to say that English is the language we happen to use. 
At least for me, I would gladly write the Musicians' Guide concurrently in all 
four languages I know, except I don't have the specialist vocabulary... the 
reality is, English is the only language I can use well enough to write this 
document, and that's the reason its primary language is English.

On the other hand, we can always use the "Draft Documentation" section for 
intermediate updates.

Whew!


Christopher
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