On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:38 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > 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. Last November I proposed some standard boilerplate entities for this, and promptly forgot to implement them. Sorry. It's in bugzilla here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139931 If someone else could get this implemented, that would be great. > > * 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 > -- > > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list -- fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
