On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 09:07, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I have been in the LDP list for sometime and the > review process there is something like this > > * Author submits the document link to the discussion > list > * Peer review is done by volunteers in the list > * If the document is generally agreed upon to be > included the author would then update the document > according to peer reviews > * The document would be assigned to editors who would > then do a language review as well as a technical > review( need not be the same person). > * It is included in LDP and goes through a yearly > review to make sure its relevant and kept updated. > * If not the document author is contacted off list and > gently advised to make appropriate updates > * If the authors cannot maintain the document it is > moved to the unmaintained list or someone else takes > over the maintainance or even completely removed where > it is deemed necessary(gross inaccuracies or such- ex: > kernel howto) > > The author as well as reviewers howto has more > details. Fedora docs project should probably adopt > something similar if its not done already Have you reviewed the process documents that Tammy and Karsten prepared? http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/documentation-quick-start/ http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora-docs/process-docs/ These documents address some of these concerns; Perhaps you can patch the XML on the latter to include a little bit more on maintenance. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE
