Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS-320 Engineering Rules page 35

General on Customer Documentation
............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
the document edition (usually first edition=01)
•
the document issue date. This date on the document does not refer to the date of print
•
but to the date on which the document source file was finalized and released for the
production.
Changes introduced in the same product–release (same document P/N)
The edition and date of issue might change on future document versions for the following
reasons:
only the date changes (pointed out in the Table of Contents) when modifications are of
•
an editorial nature and do not change the technical content of the document.
the edition, hence the date, is changed because modifications impact the technical
•
content. In this case:
– the changes from the previous edition are listed in
– revision bars on the left of the page in updated chapters indicate modifications in
Changes that impact the technical content of the document cause the edition number to
increase (for exmaple, from Ed.01 to Ed.02). For minor updates (for example, for
corrections), documents retain thier edition but an extra letter is appended to the version
(for example, from Ed.02 to Ed.02A). Version character/letters can also be used for draft
or proposal editions.
NOTES ON DOCUMENTS RELEVANT TO SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS
Documents relevant to software applications (typically the User Provisioning Guide, see
"Related information" (p.
to customers implies man-machine interface changes or in case of slight modifications to
procedures.
Moreover, screenshots and figures in documents do not run with releases; they are not
updated to reflect current product release versions if the screens or figures are unchanged.
Supplying updated documents to customers
Supplying updated documents to customers who have already received previous issues is
submitted to commercial criteria.
By updated document delivery, it is meant the supply of a complete copy of the document
new issue (supplying errata-corrige sheets is not envisaged).
Changes due to new product version
A new product version changes the document P/N and the edition starts from 01.
In this case, the modified sections of the document are not listed.
............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
PN 8DG 08763 GAAA
Issue 1 March 2009
text and drawings
1-x)) are not updated when the new software version distributed
Updating document
"Reason for revision" (p. 1-ix)
A - 3