Document lifecycle for authors

Maintained training page — not a controlled document. Curriculum item: "Document lifecycle for authors"; log completion via the training completion form.

What you'll learn

1. Draft → Under Review → Approved: what each status means and who moves it
2. Editing in VS Code's Source Control panel — branch, commit, sync, PR
3. Frontmatter discipline: version bumps, revision history, register sync
4. Why the approver's merge is the approval — and nothing else is

Content

Work through the author, reviewer & approver guide, then [ORG-DECISION: client content — a hands-on exercise editing a sandbox document through a full PR cycle, reviewed by the Document Controller].

Check your understanding

[ORG-DECISION: self-check questions.]