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Hello John -<br>
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Please email feedback to the list. <br>
<br>
Also, what happens when someone pushes the Publish button?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
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On 11/15/2010 03:47 PM, John Curwood wrote:
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Hi Mark,<br>
<br>
I think for the checking the Chapters marked "Feedback Please"
it's a good idea to use people on the list so that you get fresh
perspective from people that aren't involved in writing the
Thunderbird manual at all let alone the specific chapter requiring
feedback.<br>
<br>
By the way how do you want feed back to be received?<br>
<br>
Via an email to the List or via the "Chapter Talk" link.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
John<br>
<br>
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 11:59 -0500, Mark wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="CITE"> Hello All -<br>
<br>
The Thunderbird manual team has been figuring out what it needs
to do to finish the book and get it published. Adam thought that
it would be good to share this discussion with the FM list.
Please take a look and join in with suggestions and comments.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
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Hi Jen and Scott-<br>
<br>
I was a little unclear about how the statuses work, too. Once
upon a time I was a print production manager for a publisher and
a part of my job was getting documents through an editorial
department. So, trying to put that experience to good use,
here's my suggested process for how we can finish this project.
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- Unpublished: Writing is in progress<br>
- Needs Feedback!: The chapter needs to be reviewed and
commented on by someone other than the writer. This is when
someone should test the task descriptions to confirm that they
are correct.<br>
- To Be Copy-edited: Copy-edit the chapter for grammar and style
but not for content.<br>
- To be proofed: One last check before completion.<br>
- Complete: Chapter is ready for publication<br>
- Published: Chapter is in production<br>
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At this point, we have many chapters that are ready for
proofreading or for copy-editing plus a few that are unpublished
or that need feedback. Let's start going through them one by one
until we are finished. After proofreading is done for a chapter,
we should set it to complete. When all the chapters are
complete, we can go ahead and publish the manual. Are you
comfortable with is approach? Should we do it differently?<br>
<br>
About the image that doesn't appear when viewing the page, I had
the same issue when reviewing the Composing chapter. <br>
I don't know what caused it and I couldn't fix it. I ended up
deleting the picture and re-inserting it. Deleting the picture
from the page doesn't delete it from the system so I just
grabbed the existing picture and put it back where it belonged.<br>
<br>
When you say the build tools, are you referring to the "Publish"
button on the left side of the FLOSS screen? Do you know what
happens when you push it? I'm always a little hesitant to push a
button when I'm not sure about what happens next...<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
<br>
<br>
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On 11/12/2010 07:30 PM, Jennifer Zickerman wrote: <br>
<blockquote type="CITE"> Hi Mark. On the main Thunderbird page
(where the chapters are listed), I see that each chapter has a
status-like value ("unpublished", "to be proofed", etc). Can
you tell me what these statuses mean, and how I can help? What
is the general status on the project? <br>
<br>
Also, do you know why the link at the bottom of that page (to
view the manual) is 404? Adam asked me in IRC if I'd tried the
build tools yet - I don't know whether that was a hint or
what. :) <br>
<br>
Also, I have a technical problem on the Getting Support page (<a
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href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Thunderbird/GettingSupport">http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Thunderbird/GettingSupport</a>).
When I edit the page, there is a graphic. But when I view the
page, I only see the graphic's alt tag
("thunderbird_support_search_engine "). Any ideas? <br>
<br>
No worries if you don't know the answers to any of these
questions - I just thought I'd ask you first. :) <br>
<br>
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