Martin, just thinking aloud here.
Taking into account your current limited time availability, does it make sense may be to fork a community-maintained version of some of your manuals? E.g of the Beangulp <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hBfsHZcoHgz5rvhCdP42g2FJ5ouycIMV4H1tfgXpwBU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.gmhz8vh65l8g> one? You can make it less restrictive for editing, whilst maintaining your copy as "controlled" version. You could also link to the community-maintained version somewhere in the header of the strict version. Later on, when the time permits, you can use Tools => compare documents to see the difference between your version and the community-maintained one. This will release you from the pressure to review comments, whilst will allow people to dump their ideas before they forget them from one side and to access the most recent updates from the other side. At the end of the day, wikipedia has no access control at all, and somehow it became the go to source for pretty much everything. What do you think? On Thursday, January 8, 2026 at 6:11:56 AM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > Thank you for this. > I'll need some time to process this. > > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Martin, >> >> I have now reworked large parts of the import documentation: >> >> * Provided an example as illustration, I have found that this helps me a >> lot even if includes just a fraction of the possiblilities >> * Updated the import process using beangulp, generically and for CSV files >> * Documented the format of hook functions >> >> Please consider accepting the changes if you are happy with them to make >> it available to all readers! >> >> Best wishes and a happy new year! >> Moritz >> >> >> >> On 12/22/25 03:21, Martin Blais wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM M L <[email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > Am 16. 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