Re: PGDN author workflow proposal

On Tuesday 28 June 2005 16:33, Gevik babakhani wrote:
> - The "normal" authors are able to write articles based on some template.
> (tutorial, mini-howto, howto, story, interview, etc, etc)
>
> - After an author is confident about the content and decides that it is
> ready to be published, then he requests "a version" of the content to be
> published under a topic/category. (Up until this moment nothing gets into
> the main treeview where every PGDN visitor can see)
>
> - The user with "publisher" permission reviews the content. When he decides
> that this content is okay (that it is not just another "select * from"
> article) to be placed inside the main treeview, he then, approves the
> article.
>
How does one become an author?  Can anyone sign up or do they have to be
created by the publishers? If the later I suspect most of our authors could
just be publishers, I've got faith enough in Josh,Rod,Stephen, etc... that
they can do this stuff correctly.
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Robert Treat
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