Re: ANN: Version Control with Subversion published by O'Reilly Media

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:38, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> Sounds suboptimal. I don't see why they couldn't have directly edited the
> docbook sources and sent them back to you. Or better still, created a
> separate branch of the repository and done commits there. :-) Surely
> whoever was editing the book would need to know how to use subversion
> anyway?

No, the folks editing the book were just editors, not computer haX0rs.
That's why O'Reilly hires outside people to do "technical reviews" of
books. After the technical reviews are done, the book is edited just
like any other book. AFAIK, the editors are experts in spelling,
grammar, wording, clarity, and so on. They're not computer experts.

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Received on Fri Jun 25 20:03:04 2004