[drupal-docs] establishing a process/workflow for creating, submitting, editing documentation

[Boris Mann]

On 19-May-05, at 9:33 AM, Charlie Lowe wrote:

> Project issues
> - allows for file attachments
> - can notice the mailing list
> - will not display a post inline the way it would appear in the  
> handbook
> - has RSS

I'd vote for using project issues, just to raise the level of  
quality. I can imagine things getting drowned out/confusing in the  
forums.

> * People have been using the wiki and have had no problem emailing the
> list when they have something important to share. I suspect that the
> lack of email subscription in the forums is not optimal, but not a
> non-starter.

The RSS was key for me personally. I could see what was happening,  
and go and review the docs I was interested in.

> One way I could imagine would be some kind of notification for book
> maintainers so that they know when changes have been made. Boris has
> suggested the subscriptions module. I think even the notify module  
> could
> work.

Actually, my long subscriptions module rant was about centralizing  
subscriptions and having them manage both RSS feed items (i.e.  
everyone has their own subscriptions/feed, just like the buddylist  
feed) and email notification. Out of scope/needs development for now,  
but the essential issue of external notification remains (Dries: the  
updates page doesn't do external notification, so it's not  
particularly useful).

I think, with the proper level of notification, we could turn off  
moderation for book pages...i.e. make it completely wiki like. There  
are enough eyes/people with permission to be able to roll back to the  
previous revision.

My short term wish for notification technology is:
* add RSS to the tracker
* add per-node-type tracking (e.g. tracker/book and tracker/book/feed)

If we don't want to make changes to core, then I would build around  
the commentrss module (or something).

I'd be willing to post a bounty to help get this built.

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