Nothing becomes official until someone stands behind it
Writing and publishing are two different acts here. You work privately for as long as you need, then hand the work in, and someone with the authority to approve it decides whether it becomes part of the record.
- Drafts
- Proposals
- Stacks
Rewrite the ranking explanation
Three documents changed. Opened by Ines Caetano.
Not official yet. Anyone can read it, and everyone can see it is still pending.
Drafts
A private space to write and edit in before anything goes live.
A draft is your own working space. You can take your time, make mistakes, rewrite a section three times, and none of it touches the version everyone else is reading.
You never have to be finished the moment you start typing. Editing something the whole team relies on stops feeling like operating on a live patient.
- Hybrid ranking.mdedited
- Chunking.mdedited
- Reranking.mdnew
Nobody else sees any of this until you open a proposal.
Proposals
Nothing becomes official until someone reviews and approves it.
When the draft is ready you open a proposal, which is the act of handing it in. A reviewer looks it over, and only once they approve it does it join what the organization treats as true.
While it waits it is neither hidden nor secretly official. Anyone can read it, and everyone can see that it is pending. You never have to wonder whether you are reading the approved version or something a colleague wrote yesterday, because it always says which it is.
Stacks
Big changes broken into small, ordered pieces that are each reviewed on their own.
A large change does not have to arrive as one enormous proposal that nobody has the patience to check properly. Split it into a stack: a set of smaller, ordered proposals, each reviewed and approved on its own.
A reviewer approves the first part today and reads the second tomorrow, instead of facing four hundred changes at once and rubber-stamping them out of exhaustion. That is the difference between a review and a formality.