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Re: post-summit editing of etherpads

 

A side note:

On the DevOpsTeam session etherpad, I've added a new section for
post-event additions, comments, etc., hopefully encouraging
responsible after-the-fact contributions :-)

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Adam Spiers <aspiers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for an awesome design summit!  I've been reviewing the
> etherpads:
>
>    http://wiki.openstack.org/FolsomSummitEtherpads
>
> and have noticed a few instances of accidental post-summit corruption
> of etherpad contents, which is not surprising considering there is no
> difference between view mode and edit mode, and any changes are
> automatically recorded.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a
> mechanism for freezing the contents to protect against this, although
> it's possible to click the Save icon at the right of the blue
> formatting bar, and it will mark the current state as a saved revision
> retrievable via the 'Saved revisions' or 'Time Slider' tabs at the
> top.  Perhaps it would be worth the session leaders doing this after
> (optionally ;-) sanity-checking the content?
>
> Also, part of the etherpads list was accidentally copy'n'pasted into
> itself - I just removed the duplicate chunk, taking care not to remove
> anything which wasn't duplicated.
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
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