[Internal-cg] Document naming strategy

Manal Ismail manal at tra.gov.eg
Wed Aug 27 15:52:44 UTC 2014


Great .. Thanks Patrik .. 
Happy to follow ..
Kind Regards 
--Manal


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On Aug 27, 2014, at 3:31 PM, Patrik Fältström <paf at frobbit.se> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have watched the naming convention people have been using of their documents.
> 
> I suggest the following, which I think is very close to what has been in use:
> 
> During development of a document:
> 
> The person responsible for the document do now and then create new (clean) versions, and those have the name:
> 
> Example: Whatever-Issue-v3.doc
> 
> Format: <topic>-<subtopic (if needed)>-v<N>.<type>
> 
> If people comment they can do one of two things:
> 
> a. Add initials to the filename and save as new file:
> 
> Example: Whatever-Issue-v3-paf.doc
> 
> Format: <topic>-<subtopic (if needed)>-v<N>-<initials>.<type>
> 
> Or:
> 
> Example: Whatever-Issue-v3-paf-ac.doc
> 
> Format: <topic>-<subtopic (if needed)>-v<N>-<initials>.<type>
> 
> b. Add things in the document with change markings on, save as same name
> 
> The document edited can be either the main one (latest version) or later version with initials.
> 
> Discussions on calls for example, or "last call", is on a document of a certain version (without the suffixes):
> 
> Example: Whatever-Issue-v3.doc
> 
> The final, approved, document is named without version number:
> 
> Example: Whatever-Issue.doc
> 
> Format: <topic>-<subtopic (if needed)>.<type>
> 
> It is the person being responsible for the document that should create new versions when needed.
> 
> We will ask the secretariat to (help the document manager, which is an ICG member) to keep track of versions of document, and rename if needed.
> 
>   Patrik Fältström
> 
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