On 2/24/2010 3:00 PM, Al Haines (shaw) wrote:
Would it not be simpler for DP itself to have a Pre-releases page, similar to its Smooth-Read page?
I would think that if pre-releases are copied from DP into some PG environment, similar to Preprints, there would need to be some coordination to remove them from that environment when they're posted into PG as finished products.
True, if that were the proposal. But it wasn't. The proposal was to let the files churn at DP until they were in a "mostly finished" state. Then, let them sit at PG in a "mostly finished" state forever, because no one can say definitively when they /are/ finished; and to put them in some kind of a Wiki-like environment so "tweaks" can be made incrementally by the "unwashed masses". Or, PG could encourage DP to release its work product (including page scans) to organizations other than PG (e.g. IA, Wikisource) where these kind of incremental changes /could/ be made and PG could harvest them from these other sources at regular intervals.