I want to get in on this, but hadn't yet figured out how to get at it. Am wanting to start with -- first of all -- the English language editing. If I need help getting *at* it, and returning it, I hope someone over there will walk me through the access issues.
R. Karpov On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:39 AM, ccornell - OpenOffice.org < [email protected]> wrote: > On 05/30/10 17:44, Claire Wood wrote: > >> I'm going to pick up from where I left off with the Impress Guide on >> Tuesday. So I'll start with Chapter 4 and work my way along. I'm >> astonished >> no one has touched it since the other week. >> > > That comes from everyone being caught up and busy with too many things :-P > The editing and reviewing is something that always seems to be forgotten or > set aside for later. > > > Jean/Clayton - I'm only putting the technical accuracy check mark on the >> first page of each chapter. Hope that's OK? >> > > I think that's fine for now. > > We have a couple options... > - putting the check note on only the first page of a chapter > - using the Wiki Bot to add the check to rest of the pages in a chapter > - using the FlaggedRevs extension (installed, but turned off by default) > to flag pages as reviewed > > > [Just a minor point, to help me keep track of replies. Can you tag your >> replies with square braces and REPLY [REPLY] please, >> > > That's going to be a hard one to implement. I can't add that to the way > the mailing list is set up... and getting people to change the subject line > (which is what I'm assuming you're asking here?) is pretty much impossible > to enforce/implement. > > You're using GMail right? GMail threads messages based on Subject (a > totally broken and wrong way to do this, but that's how Google does it). If > someone changes the subject line, it will break the thread in GMail and show > up as a totally new thread/message. Then if someone replies to the original > and forgets to edit the subject line, or even edits the subject line and > inserts an extra space or some other text, you'll find that the message will > be attached to the old/original thread, or will start in its own new thread. > Your messages will become even more unmanageable, and hopelessly > disconnected from the parent message. > > GMail is a royal pain with mailing lists because of this - I use Gmail for > mailing lists as well, so have had years of experience with the annoyances > of this mail client. > > You can set Labels in GMail to help sort your messages... > > > C. > -- > Clayton Cornell [email protected] > OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
