6. A document editing data processing system comprising: memory and at least one processor; a file name modification module executing in the memory and configured for communicative coupling to a document editor also executing in the memory, the module comprising program code enabled during execution in the memory to determine a set of authors for a document created for editing in the document editor, to modify a file name of the document by appending an identity of each author in the determined set author to the file name of the document, and in response to one of the authors in the determined set of authors assenting to a publication of the document, to change a visual appearance in the modified file name of an identity of the assenting author by removing the identity of the assenting author from the modified file name of the document resulting in leaving the identity of each author in the determined set of authors that has yet to assent to the publication of the document in the modified file name of the document.
9. The system of claim 6 , wherein the change in visual appearance in the file name of the identity of the assenting author is a decoration of the identity of the assenting author in the file name with an icon.