Project hospital

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Project hospital definition

The Project Hospital is an ad-hoc clearinghouse for projects with problems that prevent them from being completed. These can include (but are not limited to) damaged, duplicate or missing pages, missing or poor illustrations, missing clearances, duplicate projects, and poorly prepared projects (huge page or image scans as proofing images).

The Project Hospital is currently outside the main DPC workflow, though it is intended that the process become more formalized in the future. The current "patients" are listed on the Project Hospital page.

Normally, Project Managers will themselves be able to correct any issues with their projects, by using the project manager tools, the Missing Pages Wiki, and db-req.

However, there are some PMs who are long-absent or who for other reasons are unable to actively address any issues with a project. This is the most common reason for a project to be placed in the Project Hospital.

PMs can also use the Project Hospital to more visibly indicate that projects have a problem of which they are aware and working on, or for which they wish assistance.

To put a project into the Project Hospital

A PM or a Project Facilitator can add a project to the Project Hospital with the following process:

1) Modifiying the project title.

Add the text

 {needs fixing

to the end of the project title, followed by

, see notes}

or

, see Forum Thread}

2) Adding notes to the Project Comments or the Forum Thread.

For Project Comments: The notes should be added at the start of the project comments, and must be surrounded by <pre> and </pre> tags.

Project Comments Example:

<pre>
Missing:
Page 16 -- 015a.png
Page 17 -- 015b.png
</pre>

In either case, notes added to the Project Comments or Forum thread should contain a clear and precise decription of what problems the project has.

What Happens in the Project Hospital

Vast armies of hypercaffeinated chipmunks will descend upon your project and perform dizzying feats of research and analysis to determine the extent of any problems and what resources and corrective actions are available.

Assuming that another copy of a text can be obtained, any duplicate pages will be removed, damaged page scans will be replaced, a missing pages project will be run (if applicable), any missing or replacement illustrations will be added to the project files, and all the parts assembled into the original project so that it is complete.

After this is done, the modifications to the title are removed (thus releasing the patient/project from the hospital) and the project status altered to the appropriate state.