RE: Versioning TeleConf Agenda, 4/24/00 (Monday) *1-2pm*EST

From: Clemm, Geoff (gclemm@Rational.Com)
Date: Mon, Apr 24 2000

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    From: "Clemm, Geoff" <gclemm@Rational.Com>
    To: "DeltaV (E-mail)" <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
    Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 18:20:43 -0400
    Subject: RE: Versioning TeleConf Agenda, 4/24/00 (Monday) *1-2pm*EST
    
    We first discussed the DAV:body proposal, and David's Fetch/Save proposal in
    general.  Jim Whitehead posted the results of this discussion under the
    header
    of "RE: Collection Fetch/Save proposal".  In summary, my appreviated form of
    David's proposal (i.e. DAV:body) was deemed too limited in scope (since it
    only
    provided for XML with no DTD preamble), while a more comprehensive proposal
    (i.e. with mime multi-part marshalling) was deemed useful, but probably
    fairly
    complicated in the details.  The consensus was that this was more
    appropriately
    handled independently from the versioning protocol, since it is not
    versioning
    specific, and is not required for versioning.
    
    We then discussed allowing an activity or a workspace as a URL, to mean that
    all
    working resources associated with that activity or workspace should be
    checked in
    atomically.  It was pointed out that this is likely to be misleading (i.e.
    it would
    seem more natural for this to "create a new version of the
    activity/workspace",
    and furthermore, that atomic checkin of multiple working resources is
    currently
    not widely supported anyway.
    
    These are the last two issues appearing
    in the issues list I am maintaining in the protocol document.  If anyone has
    any
    issues that they feel need to be discussed before final call, now would be a
    good time
    to send them to the mailing list!  I am almost done with the revised
    "advanced versioning
    semantics" section, and hope to get that mailed out tomorrow.
    
    Cheers,
    Geoff 
    
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    From: Clemm, Geoff [mailto:gclemm@Rational.Com]
    Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:58 PM
    To: DeltaV (E-mail)
    Subject: Versioning TeleConf Agenda, 4/24/00 (Monday) *1-2pm*EST
    
    
    Note the time change. This is change is just
    for this week, and we'll be back to 2-3pm next week.
    
    phone: 888 819 8909  pass-code#97985
    
    Agenda:
    
    - Should we support a DAV:body property?  This would support David
    Goodenough's "batch fetch/update" scenario, i.e. fetching or updating
    the bodies of several resources in one request.
    
    - Should we allow an activity or a workspace as the request-URL
    to a CHECKIN request?  This would checkin all working resources associated
    with that activity or workspace.
    
    Note: These are the last two issues on my issues list.  If anyone
    has another issue, please let me know.
    
    Cheers,
    Geoff