[projectaon] Re: Errors: <foo-first>
- From: "OToole L" <L.OToole@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:58:00 +0100
Hi all,
Sorry I've been so quiet recently. Strange stuff happening at the end of
summer and the start of a new academic year have somewhat restricted my
PA time as of late. There are several outstanding e-mails that I fully
intend to reply to at some point, but I wanted to respond to this
question now.
Simon Osborne wrote:
>Does anyone have any comments on how often I should post outstanding
>issues, and how many per post? I intend to focus on the easier ones
>first (the on to vs. onto thing exists in Books 8-17, 19-28, GS1-4,
>and FW2-4; I don't see the point in posting each and every one of
>those occurrences in these posts! ;-) ), sometimes at random,
>sometimes "themed" such as this batch, and at other times all
>related to one book with a view to fixing all outstanding issues.
My experience is that if you want feedback from a few people, or if you
want to start a discussion, then try to keep it to an absolute minimum.
Anyone who's been here for a while knows that I can get a tad lengthy
with my errata lists for the PDF documents, but Simon is usually the
only one to reply, and even then that's because he is the one who
maintains the file and has to implement the changes. Let's face it, who
really wants to read a list of minutiae about the serial comma?
Compare to this the overwhelming response to the *2* issues I raised in
August regarding Tabletop Heroes.
With this in mind, I would make the following suggestions:
- No more than 5 or so specific questions or issues per e-mail.
- Things should aim to be phrased in such a way that a reply merely
needs to choose either 'A' or 'B'.
- Wait until everything in one message is discussed, decided, and
resolved (and maybe a few days after that) before sending another.
My 2 Kika.
Cerulean
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