- From: (unknown charset) Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 11:39:30 +0200
- To: (unknown charset) Jan Algermissen <jalgermissen@topicmapping.com>
- Cc: (unknown charset) "Miles, AJ ((Alistair))" <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>, David Price <david.price@eurostep.com>, public-swbp-wg@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:36:15PM +0200, Jan Algermissen wrote: > On Jul 8, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Miles, AJ ((Alistair)) wrote: > >I'd be happy to rename it to 'change management'. > > Beware that change management is primarily interested in the > management of the change *process* (requesting a change, controlling > undesired effects of the intended change, getting approval etc.) not > the versioning issues. This puts a finger on why I'm not comfortable with the word "management". > Configuration management OTH, *is* concerned with managing the > versions (or at least baselines) if applied to source code (the > configuration of a piece of source code is its content). However, analogies involving software code or automobile options seem misleading. How about "change documentation" or even (to come full circle) "version documentation"? Tom -- Dr. Thomas Baker baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de SUB - Goettingen State +49-551-39-3883 and University Library +49-30-8109-9027 Papendiek 14, 37073 Göttingen
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