[Zope-CMF] Refining the disposition of published-documentrevisions

[Chris McDonough]

This is a very clear summary.

Another potential implementation avenue is to create revision-aware
content types.  For instance, a formatted document class which contained
multiple revisions -- a public revision and a current revision.  An
instance would always render a version of itself to visitors based on
the public revision while workflow was pending for the current revision
(if they differed).  This is actually pretty simple.

This would have the benefit that no path-munging nor ZODB changes would
be necessary.  OTOH, all content types would need to be modified to
support this behavior.

- C


Ken Manheimer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Ken Manheimer wrote:
> 
> > > ..and your post was cut off in its prime:
> > >
> > > >   parts.  The addition of being able to assign document revisions to
> > > >   symbolic version
> >
> > I fixed that in a copy i put in my member folder in the CMF -
> > unfortunately the Zope site is down at the moment (ethan's working on
> > solving that), so i can't point you at it exactly (i have a flaky memory,
> > don't recall what i called the document - you can find it in
> > http://cmf.zope.org/Members/klm - whoops, i may have not published it,
> > will do asap).
> 
> http://cmf.zope.org/rqmts/proposals/publishing_refinements
> 
> I elaborated a bit about "historical revisions".  I've also chatted with
> jim, briefly, during which he pointed out a few compelling reasons that
> using historical versions is painful, so i mentioned them in my proposal,
> and added a few other options.  One of those is along the lines that shane
> was suggesting.
> 
> One lesson here is that it's valuable for these proposals to concentrate
> on "what", identifying clearly what needs to be done (and why), and
> leaving the "how" for implementation.  I think both shane and i moved too
> quickly to mixing in how in our proposals (casual or not), muddying the
> waters.
> 
> Ken
> klm@digicool.com
> 
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