Action Items for Document Processing Scheme for doc team.

Louise McCance-Price lu at canonical.com
Thu Nov 18 17:34:59 UTC 2004



John Hornbeck wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 08:31 -0800, Matt Kirchhoff wrote:
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>>On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:53:15 +0200, Sivan Green <sivan at piware.de> wrote:
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>>>Hey all,
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>>> So...after all the good discussion, how shall I go about this issue?
>>>Plesae refer to my post with the proposed plan...we should get going...
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>>Here's a summary of the thoughts from the prior thread:
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>>- Users shouldn't have to verify with us before posting docs on the
>>wiki; requiring that would make extra work for us and would likely
>>discourage people from posting. The wiki should be a virtual rough
>>draft.
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agreed - we must reduce the barriers to entry as much as possible.

>>- There should be *some* quality control mechanism, however. Sounds
>>like we want edited/polished docs to be moved to an "official" area,
>>such as the svn DocBook repository.
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>>So I guess now the process by which docs are verified and moved into
>>svn needs to be defined.
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>>-- 
>>Matt Kirchhoff
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>Well I think Matt summed most of it up.  We should create a page for
>"proposed docs to be moved", we could list docs here and say if they
>should go to docbook, or to the main site.  We can than sign off on each
>page and after said page has at least three sign off's we move it.  Does
>that sound good?  I think this would be the best way of moving docs into
>main stream.
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Sounds good to me.
lulu




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