discuss: document categories
Subject:
Re: document categories
From:
Martin Wheeler ####@####.####
Date:
14 Apr 2005 22:28:18 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504142235440.21994@chaucer.startext.demon.co.uk>
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> I was looking at this again, and I felt that by changing the text on the
> pages and some minor modifications
<aside: minor? Ha! I've heard *that* one before! I'm a developer,
remember? Exit, chasing goalposts. :>
> we could really use this to maintain
> not just the author information, but volunteer information.
Yes, I was actually pondering the same thing myself this afternoon.
However, there are two things I dearly want to avoid:
(a) piling everything but the kitchen sink into this database;
(b) doing constant re-writes to cater for each author's idiosyncratic
view of what the database *really* represents.
> ... Storing just the author info is of
> little value
Steady on there! It's the prime reason for the database in the first
place!
> what is more valuable is probably varous subject matter
> technical reviewers, specialists, language reviewers, markup volunteers
> and co-ordinators information.
(Not *more* valuable; more like 'will give added value'.)
But I agree; half-a-dozen yes/no buttons such as:
- are you prepared to take on technical reviews?
- do you feel competent to carry out language reviews?
- are you prepared to convert 'other text' to Docbook XML?
- would you like to be considered as a topic co-ordinator?
- are you willing to do proof-reading?
- do you feel able to carry out translations?
If so, in which language pairs? [e.g. Gaidhlig --> English]
français --> Malagasy]
from which we could haul out useful info via the search engine.
Further comments, anyone?
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