FM file per country for same software

[Art Campbell]

I don't see any reason not to treat it as you would translation into
any other language. If I were you, I'd:
* turn track changes on
* plan on serial processing -- one writer is the lead for any given
chapter or part. The other writer waits patiently for a draft that has
been reviewed, edited, and approved. This increases the time required
to release, but if the writers are on different release schedules, you
just need to factor it in.
* use your company's bug tracking system to log and record errors that
the second writer finds in the final draft that has been passed to
them. Don't do it informally.

Art

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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Lynn Durell <Lynn.Durell at dds.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Framers,
>
> We currently have a single source FM doc, with conditional tags used for
> UK-only or USA-only sections, so the same FM file is used for both UK and
> USA versions of our software app, with 2 writers (one UK, one USA) working
> in conjunction on the same file.
>
> This is too complex to keep up, especially as UK and USA versions of the
> software are not released at the same time, so we are going to split the
> FM in two copies. Going forwards, there will be one writer updating the UK
> FM and one writer updating the USA FM.
>
> However, we don't want both writers to be documenting the same software,
> but at the same time, we don't want one writer to have to continuously
> list or copy/paste all their changes to the other writer (who then
> localises).
>
> Does anyone have experience with this and how to work with it?
>
> Thanks,
> Lynn Durell
> lynn.durell at dds.co.uk
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