Next message: Boris Bokowski/OTT/OTI: "Re: are workspaces versionable?"
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:11:18 +0100
From: "Tim Ellison" <tim@peir.com>
To: "Boris Bokowski/OTT/OTI" <Boris_Bokowski@oti.com>, "Delta-V" <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
Subject: Re: are workspaces versionable?
A workspace is a collection, versioned or otherwise.
So, if your question is can a workspace collection be a versioned collection,
the answer is 'yes'.
Tim
-- Original Message --
> From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
> Workspaces are not versionable, but they can have associated baselines.
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>A
> server would not be able to automatically put them under version
>control.
> They are versioning meta-data.
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>This makes it difficult to make use of the DAV:version-set of baselines,
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>because there is no convenient way of finding out the root (or the
>top-level elements) of that baseline, and the bindings to these top-level
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>elements - their names - are not available. Or is there a way of
>determining the names of the top-level elements in a baseline? One could,
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>of course, create a workspace and merge the baseline into that workspace,
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>but this requires clients who just want to browse a baseline to have write
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>access to the server in question.
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>Anyway, I think that the 07 draft is not clear on this point. Section 9.1
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>could be changed to clarify this:
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>In the third sentence of 9.1. , add "non-versionable" as follows:
>"A workspace is a non-versionable collection whose members are a set of
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>related versionable resources, version selectors, and working resources."
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