Versioning from another perspective
Bill Bumgarner (bbum@codefab.com)
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:38:27 -0500
Message-Id: <199912202038.PAA11699@bjork.codefab.com>
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:38:27 -0500
From: Bill Bumgarner <bbum@codefab.com>
Subject: Versioning from another perspective
Briefly:
I have been following the ongoing discussions with great interest and
for the purpose of solving a very particular problem.
Specifically, it is my goal to use an implementation of the versioning
specification that will result from this discussion to implement a fully
featured [GPL'd] revision control and configuration management system for use
in software development projects.
In particular, it is my goal to obsolete CVS. CVS has cost myself
and my company many many hours of frustrating maintenance effort to keep it
working at an acceptable level. Worse, the CVS maintainers are not at all
interested in supporting features that are necessary for the management of web
related projects [binary files, in particular].
As such, I'm interested in a dialog centered around how, exactly, the
versioning functionality would be used in a client/server environment to manage
production source trees [including branch development and configuration
management issues]. The result of this discussion would be two fold; use
cases demonstrating how various common source management operations would be
carried out and validation of the ideas behind the design of the versioning
standard against yet-another-working-model.
If appropriate, I would be happy to sponsor a mailing list for such a
discussion. I will be on vacation from this Wednesday until January 5th-- if
a separate mailing list is appropriate, I will create it (and the associated
web based archive) upon my return.
thank you!
b.bum