RE: meaning & practice of a "doc freeze"

["John Posada" <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com>]

-----Original Message-----
Subject: meaning & practice of a "doc freeze"

Does anyone out there use a "documentation freeze" approach in their doc
development/production strategy?


-----Response Message-----

In my experience, a document freeze is at the moment where no changes
can be made to the document and still meet the promised release
time/date. For me, this is usually about 3 hours before the documents
are being burned onto the CD, though it has been shorter, depending on
how critical the modification was.

I've found no enforceable way to prevent receipt of any changes or
modifications to a document when there is still time to get them in.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Isogon Corporation
http://www.isogon.com
 
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