Once you've submitted an RCR, you can perform several actions (in addition to responding to comments, of course).
Specifically, you can:
Withdrawing an RCR is appropriate when comments and analysis by other people have led you to realize that your RCR is not viable. You can always wait until Matz rejects it, but if you're sure it's not going to succeed it's nice to withdraw it yourself.
... sign into RCRchive, view your RCR, and click the withdraw link below the RCR body.
A minor edit is usually a correction or small clarification. Remember that people's comments will get out of sync with your RCR if your minor edits start getting major. (If you want to make major changes, you should replace the RCR, as described below.)
... sign into RCRchive, view your RCR, and click the edit link below the RCR body. After you finish editing, choose 'minor' as the edit-type from the selection list.
If you want to make larger changes to your RCR -- but still consider the new version essentially a rewrite of the old (rather than an entirely new RCR) -- you need to do a replace (supersede) operation. You should do this, for example, if your changes are going to make the existing comments obsolete or out of sync; otherwise people will get confused.
The replacement RCR will have a new number, and a separate comment and voting area. However, there will be a link back to the old version, so that people can read the old comments and see the votes. (It is not possible to comment or vote on the old version once it's been superseded.)
... sign into RCRchive, view your RCR, and click the edit link below the RCR body. After you finish editing, choose 'supersede' as the edit-type from the selection list.
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