[documentation] Handbook Page - Drupal's page serving mechanism

[Peter Wolanin]

Hi Steve and other documenters,

a FYI that relates to your message below.  A (?) bug was recently
fixed in the book module, so for 5.x (as perhaps it was for 4.5 or
4.6) when someone (without 'administer nodes') edits a book page, the
authorship of the page will be changed over to that person
automatically.  This may get backported to 4.7.x even.

see: http://drupal.org/node/93678

-Peter

On 11/29/06, Steven Peck <speck at blkmtn.org> wrote:
> Greetings and welcome to the team.
>
> As you have a new account, I suggest you check out this link
> http://drupal.org/History-mission-and-community, fairly short section.
>
> Anyone with an account has the ability to add Drupal handbook pages.
> Any page you add, you can edit (filtered HTML) with no additional
> rights.  For the most part we may, edit, tweak and move pages that are
> added.  For using Full HTML you need to be added to the document
> maintainer role which gives you Full HTML in the handbook and the
> ability to edit most of the handbook pages.
>
> Yours is the first request from a very new account (few days), usually
> people are involved for a few months before they jump in so I had to
> think about it (you'll see the tabs now btw).
>
> I'm currently the one that has the responsibility to say yes/no but in
> general it's a community collaborative effort.  In general as you feel
> your way into the community it's a semi-autonomous thing.  Propose, get
> feedback, refine, and go ahead.  The developers' handbook is most
> visited by the active devs and several of them are fairly good about
> keeping it up to date.
>
> I don't know that anyone is working on documenting the page serving
> mechanism.
>
> Basic doc guides are here: http://drupal.org/node/14279 (which needs to
> be revisited as they were last really updated over a year ago.  So the
> simple rules of thumb are.....
> Don't change the author info, even if you are rewriting the text.
> We need more stuff, so if you feel something is missing add it, best
> guess if not sure.  I can move it later.
> Make sure the revisions box is checked.
> Use <code> </code> tags
> When in doubt, ask.
>
> The last major handbooks update was almost a year ago.  Things got a lot
> better and the questions changed a lot on the forums so this is good.
> I've been very very busy at work until recently but have tracked things.
> We're probably going to re-org part of the handbook very soon again to
> accommodate what we've learned and the changing nature of the community.
> I owe Michelle an answer as she was the one with a pretty complete
> proposal.  I think we're going to go part way there with it as some
> other folks have been asking for some other things lately.  Hope to
> spend some time on Sunday mapping out an answer for her.
>
> -sp
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: documentation-bounces at drupal.org
> [mailto:documentation-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Michael Malione
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10:03 AM
> To: documentation at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [documentation] Handbook Page - Drupal's page serving
> mechanism
>
> My username is malione, and the link to my ID is
> http://drupal.org/user/94150.  I'm new to the
> community, so I'm still finding my way around
> protocols and procedures.
>
> I've also noticed that I don't have the ability to
> edit any of the handbook pages.  What's the procedure
> for getting official go-ahead to undertake a task like
> the one I'm proposing?
>
> Also, if anybody else has been recently working on
> this page, please contact me.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Link to your user ID on Drupal.org ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: documentation-bounces at drupal.org on behalf of
> Michael Malione
> Sent: Mon 11/27/2006 6:12 PM
> To: documentation at drupal.org
> Subject: [documentation] Handbook Page - Drupal's page
> serving mechanism
>
> I'd like to contribute to this page, bringing it more
> in line with the current release of Drupal and making
> it more palatable for newcomers to draw relevant
> information from it.
>
> I believe that I need permission to post in Full HTML
> in order to effect any changes to this page.  Can
> someone set me up with this, or if not, is there
> anyway I can arrange to send draft copies of this out
> to somebody who can review and post it for me?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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