Next message: Geoffrey M. Clemm: "Re: workspaces and configurations"
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:48:00 -0500
From: Sankar Vidhagriswaran <sv@vortex.crystaliz.com>
Message-Id: <200003162248.RAA25003@vortex.crystaliz.com>
To: geoffrey.clemm@rational.com, ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Subject: workspaces and configurations
Geoff,
This is the way our system implements configurations, workspaces (which we call as work packages because they can
be submitted to other parties for review), baselines, and releases (the last two being very similar except in the
properties associated with them).
So, implementationally it is possible and it actually makes for a configuration management system that does not
force people to learn many different concepts. In other words, one can create distributed configuration management
systems targeted for completely different audiance this way. For the simple document oriented collaboration
concepts such as baselines need not be explained whereas for software development teams one could choose to
expose releases, baselines, builds, etc. All of these can be built from the same two concepts -- configurations and
composite configurations.
Sankar