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