title: Editorial process
aliases: [editorial process, contributing, updates]
tags: [about]

Editorial process

This is a living document. It will keep changing as people use it, push back on it, and bring new examples, terms, and corrections. This page describes how those changes happen.

Point of contact

Jared Coleman is the editor and point of contact for this document. Requests, corrections, new examples, and concerns all go to him.

How a change is made

1. A request comes in. Anyone may suggest a change: a correction, a new example, a reframing, or a concern about something already published.
2. The editor drafts. Periodically, Jared gathers the outstanding requests into a draft set of changes.
3. Drafts go to the previewers. Each draft is circulated to the previewers (initially the participants of the first Sunaŵi workshop) for feedback, concerns, and edits. On this site, drafts live as previewer-only pages (visible to participants who hold the previewer password) until they are published.
4. Iterate. Edits and concerns are incorporated, and revised drafts are re-circulated as needed.
5. Hold before publishing. Nothing is published until every previewer has had at least 7 days to respond to the current draft.
6. Publish. Once that window has passed with no unresolved objections, the change is made public.

Why this process exists

This document speaks, in part, for and about specific communities and people. The previewer circulation and the waiting period exist so that nothing about someone's words, work, or community is published here without the benefit of review from diverse perspectives.