[documentation] Help cleaning up comments

[Addi Berry]

Hello fellow doc maintainers,

Since I became a site maintainer at OSCMS a few weeks back I have  
been on a mission to delete comments from the handbooks.  I have been  
chipping away at the list and as of writing this email there are only  
19 pages that have more than 10 comments each to them. I have been  
deleting useless comments (thanks and support requests) and rolling  
in useful ones. There are literally hundreds (maybe 500+?) pages with  
comments and so I am asking for a little help here.

Doc maintainers cannot delete comments but you can roll comments into  
the handbook and identify comments that can be deleted.  What do I  
mean by roll them in?  Glad you asked. :) Here is a little step by step:

1. Go to the list of pages with comments: http://drupal.org/handbook/ 
comments (you can also find this in the Contributor Links block on d.o)
2. Pick a page, start at the bottom for those with only 2 comments or  
start at the top for the biggies.
3. Read the page, read the comments and determine if there is useful  
info/corrections in the comments.
4. Roll it:
	a. if there are corrections or additional info that would be good to  
have in the page - please edit the page.
	b. if there is extra goodness that is not good for that page, copy  
the comment into a new page (normally a good location is as a child  
page of where you are). I also normally make sure to add a note to  
the log giving the original comment poster credit (e.g. "from comment  
by username")
5. Kill it: Once you roll in the useful bits (or if there are no  
useful bits) create an issue for a site admin to delete the  
comments.  Just name the issue Delete Comments, make it a task and  
provide links to the page(s). Feel free to create one issue that  
lists a whole bunch of pages that need comments deleted (when I did  
this, I just opened a notepad on my puter and copy/pasted the URL of  
each page I worked on, then copied the whole list into an issue). The  
more the merrier.

Note: if you aren't sure about all of the comments or weren't able to  
roll them in but think they are still useful you can also post an  
issue that says, delete all the comments except x, y and z, where x,  
y and z are a list of the URL directly to the comment or the title of  
the comment.

I will be checking the issue queue for comment deletions pretty much  
all the time and if you have questions or want an immediate purge,  
you can always try to catch me on IRC.  I'm normally hanging out in  
#drupal or #drupal-dojo whenever I'm online (IRC nick is add1sun).

Thanks for your help and remember, Doc maintainers Rule! (and make  
the world a better place)
- Addi