Rick Hillegas wrote: > Jean T. Anderson wrote: > >> Rick Hillegas wrote: >> >> >>> Thanks, Jean. The Edition line turns up in the visible text which >>> appears in the printed document. That makes me think that it applies to >>> something that the customer, the reader, cares about. I don't think the >>> reader is particularly concerned about our transition to dita. If that >>> is what Edition is supposed to capture, perhaps the Edition lines should >>> be moved to a comments section so that they will not be >>> visible/confusing to customers. >>> >> >> >> The Developers Guide has a "first edition" for both 10.0 and 10.1: >> http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.0/manuals/develop/develop.html >> http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.1/devguide/rdevcopyright.html >> >> I don't know why the Edition was bumped for the others. :-) >> >> If there isn't a major change to the content of the book, I don't think >> the edition should be bumped. >> >> "Working With Derby" should definitely not be bumped from First to >> Second edition since 10.2 will be its first release. >> >> > I could just bump the edition for the Reference Guide, which will carry > a lot of edits to reflect JDBC4. Would that be acceptable?
What does the "edition" represent? Would this mean the first release of the 10.2 documentation set would be partially at the "second edition", doesn't seem to make sense to me. Dan.