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Subject:Re: Coding documentation? From:Haim Roman <haim -dot- roman -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Hannah Drake <hannah -at- formulatrix -dot- com> Date:Wed, 4 Dec 2013 21:38:54 +0200
If this documentation about your company's products, then maybe relate a
doc's part # to the part # of the product it documents, or the part # of
the main component of the product.
If it's documentation from external sources, do they have ISBNs?
-- Howard (Haim) Roman
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Hannah Drake <hannah -at- formulatrix -dot- com> wrote:
> Hi TechWrl Family,
>
> (I'm loving this list by the way) -- Now that my company has started to
> grow a library of professional documentation, someone suggested assigning
> part numbers to the documentation instead of just the date it was released.
> But, the convention they use for our part numbers doesn't quite work for
> documentation.
>
> What numbering conventions can you suggest? Right now I just keep the
> latest version of something on our Google wiki, which has a version
> history, so that sort of works. But I feel like it would look more polished
> if we started using some fancy, "no idea what that number means --
> QT75729A2 is so mysterious" numbering system.
>
> --
> Hannah L. Drake
>
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