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.

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