On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 01:51 PM, Diana Shannon wrote:
> > On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 05:37 AM, Jeremy Quinn wrote: > >> If we had something similar to BugZilla for documentation, >> that would accept emailed doc updates, then the work of the >> editor could take place on the servers set up by the users, >> and posted to the Doc BugZilla for checking and if >> appropriate, inclusion. >> >> The documentation pages could be rendered (on users machines) >> with links that allow users to bring up a form to add >> comment|add patch|etc. This form would be processed on their >> own server, then sent in to Doc BugZilla. > > Agreed. IMO, you'd need to accept both comments (small amounts > of text added to the bottom of a document) and doc revisions > (changing existing content). Comments don't require as much > technical or editorial review to decide relevancy. Revisions > may sit in Bugzilla for a while. > > I submitted a sample of how we could handle comment submissions > to Forrest (within a larger community contribution framework) > on the server. Once it's in Bugzilla, the comment file is > simply added to the directory of the document in question. A > naming convention associates it with the document. A pipeline > with a directory generator discovers the association and adds > links to such comments at the bottom of the document in > question. It makes it easy for committers to just throw comment > files into document directories. Ken made the suggestion we > could add a form (simplified Bugzilla interface) to add the > ability to collect comments on the live site (as well as in the > distro). You'd need to log in to Bugzilla, and come back, prior > to submitting, of course. > > Still, revisions which impact the whole document could be > tricky absent the locking associated with tradition CMS. How > would you handle multiple, simultaneous revisions (impacting > the whole file, not just a comment) made to the same document? > Agreed, revisions are a different concern. Hopefully they could be handled by Slide versioning/locking (?) Right now, I don't know enough about Slide or Forrest, that'll change ;) regards Jeremy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
