Abstract In many software organizations, technical writers fully own drafting customer documentation but do not own publishing it. A separate publication function promotes approved pages on a batch calendar. The split looks like quality control. In practice it is a latency control: a reviewed correction can sit in the CMS for days or weeks while customers, support teams, and product managers treat the live page as truth. This post argues that the person accountable for the wo

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