Hi Doug, nice to meet you!
Thanks for bringing up Gunnar, he deserves the recognition. When I was looking through the documentation files, I saw his signatures on everything, sadly ending in 2023. He did a huge amount of good work there.
Translations are indeed tricky and it’s something that the current solution is set up to do well. For now, we’re writing the new documentation in English, but the Read the Docs platform does support Localization and Internationalization. This depends on how much interest there is in the Ubuntu community to translate the documentation, of course, but the technical support is there.
It’s also worth considering that machine translations in the browser might be getting good enough to remove the need for translated documentation in many cases.
Personally, I’m keeping the door open if people want to translate. We’re still evaluating that option.
Currently, there’s no plan yet to drop the help.ubuntu.com documentation. There has to be a transition period while the new documentation grows and covers all the necessary topics. There will be no change in 25.10 for sure, and 26.04 being an LTS release, it suggests that we shouldn’t make any drastic changes there, either.
The next major steps now involve making the new documentation “official”.
I’ll make sure to keep you in the loop. How do you feel about publishing the Help documentation in 25.10 and 26.04?
Oh by the way, I notice that Bazaar support might now be removed from Launchpad, if the timeline announced earlier still holds:
Can I help you migrate the Ubuntu Help repository to Git?