Re: UNCHECKOUT

From: Tim Ellison/OTT/OTI (Tim_Ellison@oti.com)
Date: Fri, May 19 2000

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    To: "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>
    Cc: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
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    From: "Tim Ellison/OTT/OTI" <Tim_Ellison@oti.com>
    Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 09:04:23 -0400
    Subject: Re: UNCHECKOUT
    
    
    DAV:private ?!
    
    
    
    
                                                                                                                                   
                        "Geoffrey M. Clemm"                                                                                        
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    Upon further reflection, I will place my vote on keeping UNCHECKOUT.
    I believe the semantics of CHECKIN should be:
     "remember the current state in the history of this resource"
    DAV:overwrite and DAV:keep-checked-out and DAV:private all satisfy
    this semantics, but "uncheckout" would not.
    
    Cheers,
    Geoff
    
       Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:56:15 +0200
       From: Edgar Schwarz <Edgar.Schwarz@marconicomms.com>
    
       "Geoffrey M. Clemm" wrote:
       >
       >    From: "Tim Ellison/OTT/OTI" <Tim_Ellison@oti.com>
       >
       >    Do we really need a method for UNCHECKOUT?
       >    How about a check-in policy of <DAV:uncheckout/>
       >
       > I made that change in one of the earlier drafts, but as I recall, Jim
       > Amsden strenuously objected.
       >
       > I personally would be more than happy to make it be a
       > checkin policy, since it is no more strange than "keep-checked-out"
       > or "overwrite".
       It sounds logical to have a UNCHECKOUT to abort the actions of a
    checkout.
       OTOH we shouldn't inflate the number of our methods.
       I also would be content if there would be something like:
       CHECKOUT policy abort (without caring about XML syntax)
       But this shouldn't be a checkin-policy.
                                      ^^^^^^^ :-)
       Cheers, Edgar
    
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