[documentation] difficulty in contributing

[ruben d canlas jr]

Sorry this is a very late response. But I will echo this sentiment.

I wrote major parts of this node on taxonomy:
http://drupal.org/node/22274but had to stop writing because the post
was getting too long so i stopped
at Case 3 with a promise to continue it.

Before I could finish, a guy named Tim O'Laguna made a comment, expressing
interest about Case 3 and elaborated his problem. I posted a reply to his
comment, saying that I'd be writing about that, to help him answer his
question. Before I could update though, somehow, someone took my original
post and got it mixed up with Tim's question, creating a really long post
that seems to suddenly shift gears in the sentence "It's Case 3 that I am
most interested in." :).

I have since finished revising this node, with a better example and a
step-by-step
tutorial<http://digitalsolutions.ph/couchkamotereviews/power_drupal_categories>,
but I could not edit the original post. It needs to be disambiguated from
the users question/comment.

How do i make the edit? Should I just post all of it as a comment there? But
that won't quite correct the old post with the placemarkers saying for
example: {factor next para into the main text}.

Thanks!

benc



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> Reported by:  webchick
> Updated by:   O Govinda
> Status:       active
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> I  agree with webchick that the barriers to contributing are far too
> high.
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> Contributing is cumbersome, the "bugs" approach doesn't work for
> editors, and so on.
>
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> I have 35 years of experience in professional editing. Could I offer a
> small contribution sometimes? Yes--if you make it easy for me.
>
>
> At http://drupal.org/node/50464 (you can skip to the bottom of the
> page) you can see a suggested rewrite I've done for one page of
> documentation. I submitted this 15 weeks ago. No response.
>
>
> Poor rewrite? Submitted to the wrong place? Said too much before I got
> to the point? No one cares? I really have no way to know. Do I feel
> encouraged to contribute more? Well. . . .
>
>
> On another point--permissions. A possibly useful tool for assigning
> access permissions, if we'd rather have something other than
> "everyone," might be the Simple Access module:
> http://drupal.org/project/simple_access.
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