Next message: Geoffrey M. Clemm: "Re: Branching, repositories, and activities"
From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Message-ID: <85256910.007031CC.00@d54mta02.raleigh.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 16:25:28 -0400
Subject: Re: Branching, repositories, and activities
<geoff>
There is no proposal that we have two ways to express the same
problem. The questions are:
- should you be able to say "check this out (or in) in a new activity"
- should you be able to say "create an activity" (independent of any
checkout).
Perhaps the easiest answer is to just say "yes" to both, and therefore
both allow "CHECKOUT/new-activity" as well as MKACTIVITY (which allows
the creation of an activity that is not yet associated with any
versioned resource).
</geoff>
<jra>
Why bother with CHECKOUT/new-activity? It adds another switch to an already
complicated method. How would this introduce any new capability over the
second approach? Are you saying a server might support creating an activity
on checkout, but not as a separate resource? If so, couldn't a WebDAV
implementation on such a repository handle this situation with a simple
mapping?
</jra>