The editable proposal is good advice. It would be nice to present both editable version and read-only version to track the history of the proposal. If it comes down to streamline efficiency, having editable proposal is preferred. Hence, I will use editable document next time.
Regards, Eric On 2/18/11 11:50 AM, "Doug Cutting" <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: > On 02/18/2011 11:09 AM, Eric Yang wrote: >> FYI, Owen's design doc for HADOOP-6255 is also available in xml >> format in the proposed patch. I think as long as there is a mean to >> edit/revise the design doc, it should be fine right? > > Yes, that looks great to me. I am just proposing that, when a design is > first presented as a proposal intended for collaborative feedback prior > to implementation that it be provided in a format that's easy for all to > modify. Does that seem unreasonable? > > Doug >