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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 08:09:37 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200004211209.IAA25698@tantalum.atria.com>
From: "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Subject: Re: Questions on activities
From: Michelle Harris <michelle.harris@starmedia.net>
Aye, please forgive my humble opinion on this matter as I am very
new to WebDAV and am only beginning to work with the most basic
features. However, I am also following the Versioning conversation
so that I can fully understand it when the time comes to implement
that functionality. And the sections on Activities have been the
more taxing ones on my brain...I keep looking for a clear, explicit
explanation on how their envisioned use. If one exists, could you
please point me to the location?
Welcome aboard, Michelle! It's great to have someone with a
fresh perspective.
From your comments, its clear that the section on "activities" in the
advanced versioning semantics needs to be rewritten. I'll try to get
something done next week, and get it posted to the mailing list for
your review.
With that said, I would like to say that I agree with the idea that
more guidance would be beneficial to advanced development on
Versioning (especially activities). Many developers are really only
familiar with CVS and may have a hard time abstracting out all the
concepts necessary to successfully integrate pre-existing
version-control with WebDAV.
In some cases, an advanced versioning concept will not be present in
an existing version-control system, which I believe is the case for
activities and CVS. But the concepts shold be made clear enough in
protocol that it is obvious to an implementor which features of
advanced versioning are needed, and what parts of an existing system
they map to.
Cheers,
Geoff