Note: bouncing this to f-docs-l for larger audience and comments. On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:21 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > is anyone interested in minor typoes in the online docs? and i mean > "minor" in the sense that, yes, they should be fixed but, no, i'm not > about to go thru bugzilla to report them. life's way too short for > that. Thanks for noticing and caring. :) Reporting of typos via email is more likely to get dropped or forgotten than if they are in a bug. Because of the amount of bugs, changes, and feature requests that can come in for a document, we use bugzilla as a tracking tool with some workflow processes. To alleviate the pain a bit, here are a few ideas: * Many docs use a prefilled bugzilla report. You click on the link, fill out two fields and submit. Much less pain. If a document does not have such a link, it should. * Gather a number of typos and include them in a single report, minimizing time spent in bugzilla. Use a prefilled template, where possible. * Get CVS access and fix them yourself. I think the point is this: if you find typos in a document, you are likely to group them together into one email already. You won't send a separate email for every typo, right? Once you've gone that far, it only takes a few extra, short steps to make a bug report. Because we can have bugzilla do dependency tracking, properly reported bugs cannot fall through the cracks. thx - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Red Hat SELinux Guide http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
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