I am wondering is it possible to open 'view revisions' permission on handbook pages? Often times I see an handbook page is updated and wondering what are the changes (lots of updates do not come with a log). I am particularly interested in this because I am working on translation of some of the handookpages to Chinese, to be used on our Chinese community site.

Hmm...as I am writing this, I just realized there isn't a good diff module in drupal for me to really compare revisions, or is there?

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Uwe Hermann’s picture

sepeck’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

documentation maintainers and site maintainers can see the revisions. Diff module is not installed on drupal.org so you have to review by eyeball. I am unsure if diff module will be installed on drupal.org, it needs a review and such and other metrics to reduce the load on the database are being looked at right now as well.

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dami’s picture

Uwe, thanks for the link. Last time I checked diff module, it didn't work quite well for me. I notice there is a new 5.x-1.0 release, nice...i'll check it out.

@sepeck, thanks for your reply. I'd like to help on documentation as much as I can. English is not my native tougue, so I am not really good at writing docs from scratch. As I said, I am working on translating some of the handbooks, although in a very slow pace, most probably I will go through most of the handbook pages literally word by word. So I can definately help on proof-reading and correcting typos/errors etc. I have subscribed to the documentation mailing list, please let me know how to sign up and how do I start. Thanks.

dami’s picture

Status: Closed (works as designed) » Active

Alternatively, maybe make the revision log a required field, so editors won't forget it? The new revision info will be properly logged and viewable to all on the handbook update page?
http://drupal.org/handbook/updates

bdragon’s picture

Title: View handbook page revisions? » Require filling in revision log

Changing title.

betz’s picture

Project: Documentation » Drupal core
Version: » 7.x-dev
Component: Misc » documentation

Changed the component to reflect the new component categorization. See http://drupal.org/node/301443

betz’s picture

Project: Drupal core » Documentation
Version: 7.x-dev »
Component: documentation » Join documentation team

Changed the component to reflect the new component categorization. See http://drupal.org/node/301443

webchick’s picture

Project: Documentation » Drupal.org site moderators
Component: Join documentation team » Redesign
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Technically, #308675: Require revision log entry on d.o handbooks is a duplicate of this, but that one has actual code.