[drupal-docs] Please add your username to the Log entry when you revise a Handbook page

[Djun Kim]

On 31 May 2005, at 12:19 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:

>
> On 30 May 2005, at 22:42, Charlie Lowe wrote:
>
>> The handbook/updates page is a page with PHP code created by Dries
>> (see below). If someone would like to add in the revision username and
>> date, we can update that display.
>>
>> Meanwhile, might be good to think about updating the revisions tab
>> with log messages, too.
>>
>
> I'll take a look at this.  The main problem is that we don't store
> the name of the people making revisions.  We only store the name of
> the page's main author -- the main author is usually left unchanged
> unless you make significant changes.  Nonetheless, I can make a
> change or two to encourage 'good log messages'.  I'll get back to you
> as soon this has been implemented.

     The revision's author seems to be listed beside each revision in the
revision tab - is this Gerhard's patch in action?

>
> Remind that Gerhard's revisions patch takes care of the above
> problem; it allows us to track the authors of each revision.  In
> addition, it paves the path to improved versioning (think
> 'branches'). It would be great if the 'book module team' (or
> 'documentation technology team'?) could help test this patch and help
> drive its development.  It is important and should get some
> priority.  After all, it is the book module, and the documentation
> team in particular, that will benefit most from this work. (Read up
> on the patch's issue for the latest details.)
>
      I've not been very active at coordinating the technology team -
I will start working on this tomorrow.

> My documentation TODO list looks as follows:
>
>    1. Review the pending book module patches provided by Djun.
>    2. Test/debug Gerhard's revisions patch (requires your help).
>    3. Improve 'Handbook updates' page as per the suggestions in this
> thread.
>    4. Refactor the tracker page so we can track book updates.
>    5. Refactor the tracker module to provide RSS feeds.
>    6. Provide e-mail notifications of book updates changes.
>
     Thanks, Dries!

     I have some additional patches for book.module, which allow
exporting to XML.  These changes subsume some of the
prior patches.  I will upload these tomorrow.


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