Note: This message deals with a few simple administrative issues; those of you with better things to do can ignore this thread.
I have been making a conscientious effort to get familiar with your website and reviewing system so that I don't make too many blunders too soon. I have read the suggested guides and the online instructions. Phase 1 of my apprenticeship is complete and here are the results. 1. A technical question about the reviewing process. I understand that I should not review any file marked 'visible'. When I looked in the Contributor Resources folder, I saw that the files 'Template HowTo for V2 docs', 'Style Guide for V2 docs', and 'Writing OOo Guides' are all marked 'published'. So far, so good. However, when I looked in the 'Feedback' subfolder, I saw that it already contained versions of these files. Does this mean that I should not review the files in the main folder because some changes have yet to be processed? (It was even more confusing because some of the content of the Feedback files appeared to be in the main files, but some substantial changes were not.) Incidentally, I know that you have higher priority documents to be reviewed, but those were the ones I needed to read first, and I noticed a few minor issues. I thought that documenting them would be a good way to familiarize myself with the reviewing process before tackling larger projects. 2. A suggestion. In "How the review process works", there is no mention of how the file download is performed. I figured it out, but it might be useful to others to describe the process briefly. (Alternatively, this description could be added to the end of the "How to retract a document" page, assuming that you consider downloading as part of the retraction process.) 3. A couple of administrative notes. The "Checking Published Chapters Against the Software" topic (http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/contribute#check) has some broken links: published pre-release chapters (http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/writer/draft_pub/) published (final) (http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/writer/published_final) Also, it appears that the page in question (unlike most other 'document' type files) is editable by any author. (The 'Edit' tab appears when the page is displayed). I assume this is simply an oversight. I realize that these are just annoying little things, but I thought you might want to know about them nonetheless. -- jf __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
