>> 6-Respond to a documentation change request: Review
>> bugs that have the 
>> 'opensolaris' keyword and check to see if the
>> submitter in field 6 answered Yes/No 
>> to the 'Submitter wants to work on bug' field. If
>> not, proceed to address the change according to
>> existing processes. If they answered Yes, contact a
>> doc community leader to get started with working in
>> the open.
> 
> Again, a little awkward, I think. It remains a little unclear, though the 
> _gist_ of the text is fairly clear. (Does that make sense?)

True, a little convoluted. Instead of "If yes" / "If no" it might be 
sufficient just to keep the "if yes" part and throw out the "if no" part?

>> 7-Communicate changes and contributions: Post changed
>> documents to docs-discuss at opensolaris.org and cc: the
>> bug submitter or contributor with a brief description
>> of the change and under what heading it appears in
>> the updated review copy. Feel free to also provide
>> any addtional review details that might be
>> appropriate.
> 
> Except that you can't CC anyone/anything from the forum. You can only CC when 
> submitting from an email client (and since you can only have one email 
> address as yet, those of us contributing from home and work are stuck...).

Excellent point. You may wish to raise this issue on website-discuss; I 
see no good reason why posting to the forum from the website shouldn't 
allow you to enter a CC: in some text box?

> I also worry about the idea of posting a 30-page XML-based document to the 
> discussion forum. This would make for an enormous thread of one post. :-) 
> Perhaps it should involve posting _about_ the change(s), with some way of 
> putting the document on the site (the /tmp folder mentioned elsewhere? the 
> above-mentioned review page?) and a comment to that effect. Then, we would 
> need to move the updated document in place (over the old version) after the 
> review. But, are we overly complicating things, and who would do the work, 
> just which-ever leader gets to it first? Maybe this isn't as difficult as I'm 
> thinking right now. Thoughts?

If contributors are using Sun/3s with 2400 baud modems, 30 pages of text 
might be a problem :) but I would hope folks would use common sense. 
Sending enormous PDFs to docs-discuss would not be very nice to do. XML 
source and diffs are the sorts of things which seem more appropriate for 
an email forum.

- Eric

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