Re: Collaborative tool for Readme writing

Subject: Re: Collaborative tool for Readme writing
From: "Joel Wilhelm" <eleysium -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Robert Partridge" <Robert -dot- Partridge -at- citect -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:50:32 -0400

Would Google Docs or Adobe Buzzword work?

JW

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Robert Partridge <
Robert -dot- Partridge -at- citect -dot- com> wrote:

> Every time we release a product we have a mad scramble to collect
> information together for readmes and release notes. Emails fly
> everywhere, hand written notes, everyone has an input and coordinating
> the mess takes far longer than it should.
>
> I was wondering if anyone uses or knows of a collaborative system where
> people can log in and make changes to a networked readme file online
> using a basic editor (our files are distributed in basic .html format.
> Nothing heavier than <p>, <h1-6>, <li>, and links etc.), such that the
> networked copy can be grabbed at any time for the build and I don't have
> to spend days sorting out the mess?
>
> Anyone should be able to log in to the thing and make changes.
> Changes should be tracked so we can look at earlier versions and see who
> made the changes.
> The file should have a static name and location so it can be retrieved
> easily by our automated build process.
> The editor should be easy to use and not load the file with excess
> pseudo-HTML garbage.
> Preferably there should be no clean-up stage to get the file into the
> correct format/style.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob Partridge
> Technical Writer
>
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