Re: Leslie has a request for a document reviewer

[Brian (bex) Exelbierd]

I encourage you to consider filing a Pull Request instead.  This will do
the same side-by-side change display and is immediately usable and
publishable without requiring a second verification of your backporting.

regards,

bex

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein(a)yahoo.com&gt;
wrote:

>  I took the asciidoc output to LibreOffice to do some 1) grammer
> checking,
>  2) confirm accuracy, and 3) substitute better sentences to make them read
>  better.
>
>  I have proofed and corrected *the release notes*  I am a 1/3 of the way
>  through the F28 installation guide.
>  I was unable to do this markup/correction with asciidoc as you are unable
>  to see the before/after on the screen.
>  I will be back-porting the marked up text.
>
>  Before I merge the changes into the asciidoc input, I do invite someone to
>  review my LibreOffice markups.
>  Two or more eyes looking at the mark-ups are better than mine alone.
>
>  Is there a volunteer who can read a Libreoffice document in which the text
>  markups and comments are presented.
>  Its about 1 hour to 1.5 hours to go through my markup document. American
>  Spelling, International English grammar.
>
>  All the user has to do is look at each change and mark accept / reject.
>  In your review, *Accept* replaces the old text, *R**eject* replaces the
>  new text and keeps the original.
>  That person does not have to write any new stuff, but is welcome to markup
>  my changes if s/he wishes to improve what I did. You can send the document
>  back to me for my rework.
>
>  Why this approach
>  =================
>  I was  a professional tech writer for 2 years. Many of the rules I had to
>  follow from my then editor were used in my markups.
>  asciidoc input is text.  It is not practical to use asciidoc to show
>  before/after changes to a sentence, or an added comma, etc.
>  With LibreOffice writer and your confirmation that my changes are "clean",
>  I will backport them to asciidoc text.
>
>  The changes will serve for Fedora 29 and beyond.
>
>  Contact me for a dropbox link to that marked up file.
>
>
>  Regards
>
>
>  * Leslie*
>  *Leslie Satenstein*
>  *Montréal Québec, Canada*
>
>
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