Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] ANNOUNCEMENT: XML has hit the PG archives! (gutvol-d Digest, Vol 13, Issue 25)
From: Andrew Sly <[email-masked]>
To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:11:00 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Lee Passey wrote:

> _must_ remain 1. accessible and 2. inviolate. The Gutenberg edition of
> _The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes_ was first released in 1999 and has
> gone through 12 revisions, the most recent being in 2002. Version 10 is
> still available at gutenberg.org, but I can't find any earlier versions
> (this is not a criticism; PG is not an archive, after all).

A brief explanation here of the historical edition numbering of
PG texts. Every text was released initially in a version "10"
(Think of that as 1.0) And then subsequent "editions" would be
numbered 11, 12, etc. If you look hard enough in the pre-10,000
files, you can find a couple of exceptions, but that will
cover most cases. Also note that the consensus that emerged
was that a small number of minor corrections could be made
without increasing the edition number.

Andrew