[Clipart] Updating artwork

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 16:44 -0400, Nathan Eady wrote:
> Dan Gerhards wrote:
> > So there will be a duplicate if I update the artwork. How would I get the 
> > older version removed? Would an edit request get to the right person?
> 
> If you make a note of it on the Clipart Requests page, under
> Edit Requests, something along the lines of "the image in
> people/elvis_presley_bob_01.svg is obsoleted by the new
> image that is in people/elvis_presley_bob_02.svg, please
> remove the old one and keep just the new one", it should
> get fixed eventually.  I try to go through those edit
> requests at release time when I have time and remember,
> which in practice has been about every other release or
> so lately.
> 
> Note that the long-term solution involving the DMS will be
> much more elegant than this, and much more immediate, and
> rather easier, once it is in place, but it's just not
> done yet.  We started collecting clipart before we really
> were fully ready to collect clipart, because it was felt
> that it was important to go ahead and get started.

Plus, releasing early has allowed us to find problems often :)


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