discuss: Wiki questions
Subject:
Re: Wiki questions
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
13 Jan 2003 14:56:47 -0000
Message-Id: <10301130948.ZM23204@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On Jan 13, 2:47pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> Subject: Re: Wiki questions
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:25:08AM -0500, Greg Ferguson wrote:
> > On Jan 13, 9:27am, John R. Daily wrote:
> > > To me, "completely open" in the Wiki sense means that literally
> > > _anyone_ can view and edit a document. That's true of some LDP
> > > documents?
> >
> > If you work with the existing author(s), you can usually accomplish
this.
> > There are no "completely open" LDP documents that I can think of at
> > this time. We strongly suggest updates flow thru the existing author.
> > I've rarely seen an author turn down corrections/updates coming from
> > other individuals.
>
> I've certainly seen such corrections/updates being ignored, though ...
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=doc-linux&pend-inc=forwarded
Information such as this should be reported back to us so that we
might also contact the authors of the HOWTOs in question (if there
is a problem). If we aren't made aware of problems, there's not
much we can do...
