On 09 Jul 2002, it is alleged that Chris Hoess sauntered in to netscape.public.mozilla.documentation and loudly proclaimed:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, L. David Baron > wrote: >> On Tuesday 2002-07-09 10:03 +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: >>> a) (Assuming they have CVS write access) update their tree, make a >>> fix, do a diff, send it to the document owner for review, check it in >>> b) Send a mail to the document owner, who will fix it when he gets >>> around to it >>> c) Add a comment to the bottom of the relevant page, where everyone >>> can read it until the document is officially updated. >>> >>> Multiply this by several errata. >> >> (b) seems fine to me. As a document author, I'd like to know >> immediately when people find a mistake, rather than the next time I >> think of looking at the bottom of the document. Do we have any >> document authors who are saying they don't have time to deal with the >> small number of error reports they get by email? (If it ain't broke, >> don't fix it.) > > In my experience, people are oddly reluctant to fire up a mail client to > send in a correction to a website. (Maybe it's that darn window open > time!) Perhaps integrating b and c would be best--adding the comment > automatically emails a copy to the document owner? Well, yes. That /would/ make sense, wouldn't it. . . . /b. -- Mozilla end-user questions should be directed to: snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.general snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.win32 snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.mac snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix Note that you need to have SSL enabled and the port set to 563.
