Re: Release Notes Schedule

["Paul W. Frields" <stickster gmail com>]

On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 08:24:32PM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> (Trimmed recipients to just Docs Team.)
> 
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:12:42AM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote:
> >
> > If we do a really good job of wiki grooming, we shouldn't even need that, 
> > but it seems like we always discover a bunch of problems at the last 
> > minute. I was hoping to avoid the last-minute changes that frustrate the 
> > translators so.
> 
> We used to be very good at this, one challenge has been the way
> MediaWiki stops sending page change updates if you don't keep a tight
> watch on it.

If you put pages on your personal watchlist, you will always receive
notices when someone other than you edits the page, IIRC.

> Perhaps it's time to ...
> 
> * Review the beat watch process
> * Teach wider how to watch a beat for content grooming
> 
> Another idea is to organize a regular beat grooming sessions in IRC,
> along the model of the QA test days.

Regardless of the watchlist details, these are good ideas!

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