- From: Herbert Van de Sompel <hvdsomp@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:24:58 -0600
- To: Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu>, "public-dwbp-wg@w3.org" <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: Herbert Van de Sompel <hvdsomp@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu> wrote: > hello. > > great work on the new WD! i have three comments regarding versioning: > > - what is the difference between "Best Practice 8" and "Best Practice 18"? > it seems that they are very similar, and if there indeed is a subtle > difference, maybe create one practice that spans both, or make it more clear > what the difference is? > I agree they are very similar, and I actually made a comment that the Memento pattern for datetime-based versioning [1] can be used in both cases. Cheers Herbert [1] http://www.mementoweb.org/guide/howto/ > - when it comes to versioning, i am always recommending to focus on openness > and extensibility and have robust and well-defined models for those (this > almost always requires well-defined processing models for data). this often > avoids the need for versioning, which when done badly will be a breaking > change. > > - when it comes to versioning, it is important to distinguish between > breaking and non-breaking versioning changes. this comes down to the comment > above: good openness and extensibility makes it easier to have non-breaking > versioning, which helps tremendously in decentralized ecosystems. > > thanks and cheers, > > dret. > > -- > erik wilde | mailto:dret@berkeley.edu - tel:+1-510-2061079 | > | UC Berkeley - School of Information (ISchool) | > | http://dret.net/netdret http://twitter.com/dret | > -- Herbert Van de Sompel Digital Library Research & Prototyping Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/ ==
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