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? -- Chris Hoess
