Re: [libreoffice-website] Need for a means of "checking out" content and marking it as being worked on

Hi Klaus-Jürgen, *,

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:13 AM, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol
<ol@sophia-louise.de> wrote:
> Am 02.02.2011 22:53, schrieb Christian Lohmaier:
> > If There is a definite group who is "checking out" the pages, then one
> > way would be to create a corresponding user-group, add the
> > "review-publisher" to that group and then limit the publish-rights for
> > the page to that group.
>
> But all of this (Christian's and Narayan's decisions)

Oh, I wasn't makng decisions, and what you describe isn't my first
choice either.

> I won't write many words in the todo or somewhere else when I only want to
> change some letters or a link.

No - you would edit the page, and request publication.

> And I won't ask some "review-publisher" for that to publish it. If you want
> this the most people outside the "review-publisher" won't do any change on
> the website.

Well, it is not really different from the author and publisher groups
that we currently have already. (Well, almost everybody is publisher
and bypasses the workflow, i.e. everybody publishes him/herself, but
you get the idea hopefully)

> And will this be only for the international site or for the NL-sites too?

Every NL-project is of course free to handle the editing as they wish.
And due to the management overhad that a special review group would
require, I'm all for just having it ruled by policy, i.e. by telling
people: "Look, please don't publish right away, but please have
someone else review your changes, to do so don't use "save and
publish", but "save", and then "request publication".

> > Another way would be to do this just by spoken/written policy (and not
> > by technical enforcement), i.e. go away from publishing right away
> > even if you got publisher rights, to requesting publication and have
> > someone else review the page.
> > I personally prefer this approach.
>
> A written policy must be signed from all the publishers. And this is what we
> didn't want.

"written" in the terms of guidelines in the wiki or wherever, not real
paper that people would have to sign and send back in.

> The last thing:
> Is it really necessary to "checking out" the work of someone here who is a
> publisher yet?

No - that term was used because some other document management system
uses it. It is just a way to signal "Hands off, I'm currently editing
it, changes you do will be overwritten with the changes I'm
preparing".

I guess you need to take everything with a grain of salt.

Soon there will not be major changes to the existing pages anymore,
rather than refinement, etc. Just think of the pages in the OOo
project. Once you got the site/a specific part of the site done, the
editing cycles will be far fewer, and the chances of conflict will be
less as well. So don't panic :-)

ciao
Christian

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