[Doc-SIG] Creating howto directory in Python CVS
Ian Bicking
ianb at colorstudy.com
Mon Aug 29 20:09:22 CEST 2005
A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>>I note that for the "What's New" document you like to retain
>>authorship rather than succumb to group maintenance. I'd like that
>>not to be the case for the howtos, especially since the starting
>>documents come from a variety of contributors.
>
>
> It's a fair point, but one I'd like to discuss some more. The problem
> with group ownership is that it holds you back from making larger
> reorganizations; I wouldn't feel able to sit up and reorganize, say,
> dist.tex, because I don't "own" that document, or to rip material out
> because I personally feel it's uninteresting.
Maybe it would be better to identify yourself as "editor" instead of
"author".
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