09-27-2006, 08:22 AM
If I were to make an update to the Guide, would it matter if there is a detailed list of what I have changed/updated/added? Typically, for minor updates I have so far listed complete differences, while for major updates mostly big changes (or it would have been far to much). Now, I have a whole bunch of minor stuff that I have either found myself or have people report to me but in part, one thing that have hold me back have been the problem of documenting each change.
In part, the situation is as follow. I have an "work in progress" update that I have not touched for a long time, it has various changes in it but none documented, thus I it would take a long time finding it out again or redo. One additional problem is also that I no longer have the old version of MS Word that I have previously used for the Guide, so I am not sure how easy it is to simply compare documents for example and how a conversion would work out (I don't like some of the new formating changes in recent versions but I guess I have to live with it).
One of the concerns would be for the online versio of the Guide, it would certainly help to have a list of things to change as oposed to redo it all, however, I can only for new changes after the ones mentioned above set the "record changes in document" for a version to send to whoever manages it to see in the document what has changed.
So the questions is, would those few who still care be upset if there is just a new version with "lots of small fixes, corrections and additions in many places"? Of ocurse, there might not be anyone left that really cares so I can probably just go ahead and do whatever, but still...:)
In part, the situation is as follow. I have an "work in progress" update that I have not touched for a long time, it has various changes in it but none documented, thus I it would take a long time finding it out again or redo. One additional problem is also that I no longer have the old version of MS Word that I have previously used for the Guide, so I am not sure how easy it is to simply compare documents for example and how a conversion would work out (I don't like some of the new formating changes in recent versions but I guess I have to live with it).
One of the concerns would be for the online versio of the Guide, it would certainly help to have a list of things to change as oposed to redo it all, however, I can only for new changes after the ones mentioned above set the "record changes in document" for a version to send to whoever manages it to see in the document what has changed.
So the questions is, would those few who still care be upset if there is just a new version with "lots of small fixes, corrections and additions in many places"? Of ocurse, there might not be anyone left that really cares so I can probably just go ahead and do whatever, but still...:)
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