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

Shane Hathaway shane@digicool.com
Wed, 30 May 2001 10:26:43 -0400


albert boulanger wrote:
> If I may turn things around a bit on this thinking. I propose a view
> of workflow and versioning that is sort of inverted from the way being
> discussed. I have actually implemented somthing like this for our
> products at vPatch:
> 
> Think about the work and the workflow itself in a workflow being
> versioned. In our system all the materials (documents) in a workflow
> is in a collection that is available from a versioned workflow.
> 
> In theory, one could do it both ways as one is like an inverted index
> of the other if versioning is done in a consistant way across entities.

One could also say that the ZODB itself is the "versioned workflow".  In
that case, either view will have the same implementation.

Simplify, simplify, simplify. :-)

Shane