Re: how to contribute docs
"Veda Williams" <[email protected]>
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Open edit in the KB area should help... Once we get there. It's just taking longer than we anticipated, and there has been a real shortage of time and people to work on this. But yes, what you're asking for is in progress... On 1/15/10 1:13 PM, "John Schinnerer" <john-/Gao9/[email protected]> wrote: > Aloha, > >> First, comments on documents have been removed, as they were becoming >> cluttered and hard to maintain. >> >> I'm dismayed by that. Some of the most invaluable nuggets of info I've >> ever found when dealing with Plone were comments added to documents on >> plone.org <http://plone.org>. > > Ditto on that... > Also agree that some other design(s) could serve better than the old ad > hoc comments or the new no comments at all. > Ad hoc got messy and sometimes off-track; no comments really limits ease > of providing small but essential bits of information. > > Generally agree with: >> My perspective on commentable documents is that the documents are >> supposed to be 'living authored content' and that the comments represent >> a staging area for feedback/information that needs to be assimilated >> into the document. If the original author can't/won't do that, then the >> document itself needs to be editable by those who are investing the >> time/energy into adding the comments. > > ...so I think you are some kind of shared contribute/edit abilities that > can be applied in cases where an original author no longer maintains a > doc (by integrating comments/updating) and no other individual steps in > to take over primary responsibility, which seems like one reasonable option. > > thanks, > John S. -- Veda Williams Web Developer Groundwire 206.286.1235x23 [email protected] http://groundwire.org ONE/Northwest is now Groundwire! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev