Request to join doc team - Ultrabob

title clarification.

just to inform, one does not have to be part of the documentation team to create handbook pages for use in the documentation area.

A desire to become part of the Documentation Team would show in your willingness to create the pages and submit them using the create content link.

pages you create that get submitted will allow you editing privledges.

Documentation Team does not have access to edit other authors pages. That would be a site maintainer.

Contacting the author of the handbook page may help. Many of them of them are still very much active in the community. If you rewrite an entire page, submitting it with the corrections , the handbook maintainers would consider the revisions I am sure.

Re-opening issue. There is some misunderstanding that needs to be clarified. Documentation team members are assigned the documentation maintainer role. That role gives edit privileges of Filtered HTML and Full HTML handbook pages, but not PHP pages, or some other special pages. Regardless of author. This should be clear in Contributing to documentation, http://drupal.org/node/24572 but perhaps its not.

The confusion may come from the fact that doc team members have been asked not to change the author field from the original when we update a page, but it turns out doc team members don't have this privilege -- the author is automatically updated to the latest editor. Thus, the original author loses edit privileges if a doc team member updates it, unless one of the Drupal.org webmasters (site maintainer? or site admin? role) changes the author back. The Documentation writer's guide, http://drupal.org/documentation-writers-guide tries to explain this.

Ultrabob, it sounds like you might be a very good addition to the team, since someone using the documentation handbooks for the first time to perform tasks that are new to him often reveals the best usability insights.

missed the issue in earlier look through. added role.