Owning the Ball for OGC and Community Docs
How to keep track of who's working on which document.
here are the procedures for updating the draft OGC and Community documents:
- When you finish a more recent version than the one that is posted, you post it on the wiki.
- When you are going to start working on a document, you claim the ball.
- To claim the ball you send an email to the oostethys list that has the word
ball minein the subject.- Include
communityorogcin the subject or the text to indicate which one. - You can claim the ball for the whole document or just a part, but if just a part, then
- say which part in the subject and body of the email, and
- you are responsible for managing appropriate merging.
- Include
- If you are on the Oceans IE list only, ask for the ball on that list. (I'm guessing that's not an issue.)
- To claim the ball you send an email to the oostethys list that has the word
- To finish with the document, do the following if you want to publish, then release the ball.
- when you have the ball on the whole document, just put it on the wiki.
- when you have the ball on a part, you figure it out with the other people who have the ball.
- To release the document for others to work on, send email to oostethys with
ball donein the subject.- Include
communityorogcin the subject or the text to indicate which one.
- Include