Re: WeDAV Versioning Summary - Mutability
jamsden@us.ibm.com
Sun, 23 May 1999 07:44:54 -0400
From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Message-ID: <8525677A.00408693.00@d54mta03.raleigh.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 07:44:54 -0400
Subject: RE: WeDAV Versioning Summary - Mutability
We've gone around and around on this one. The implication is that a revision
cannot be modified unless it is checked out. Many document management systems
allow revisions to be modified without creating new revisions. We wanted to
provide WebDAV support for this important community. Servers are free to support
or not support mutable and/or immutable revisions, so everyone's requirements
may be satisfied.
Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com> on 05/21/99 06:52:34 PM
To: Jim Amsden/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
cc:
Subject: RE: WeDAV Versioning Summary - Mutability
I am having trouble reconciling the following two sentences:
"A checked in revision cannot be modified by anyone at any time."
and
"A revision may be checked in as mutable or immutable."
I find the whole issue of mutable to be...strange and out of scope for a
versioning system. I believe we produce real value if the WebDAV versioning
specification can just provide for versioning support, as widely accepted
and implemented, and deal with this "mutable" concept in an add-on
specification.