Jan Algermissen wrote:
On Nov 26, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
"When a resource is put under version control, it becomes a "versioned
resource". Many servers protect versioned resources from modifications
by considering them "checked in", and by requiring a "checkout"
operation before modification, and a "checkin" operation to go back to
the "checked-in" state. Other servers allow modification, in which
case the checkout/checkin operation may happen implicitly."
When a resource is put under version control, it becomes a "versioned
resource". Many servers protect versioned resources from modifications
by considering them "checked in", and by requiring a "checkout"
operation before modification, and a "checkin" operation to go back to
the "checked-in" state. Other servers allow modification and perfrom
versioning without requiring an explicit checkout operation.
I feel there should be the notion of 'modification of checked-out
working copy' in there but I don't mean to say that your above wording
isn't suitable also.
...
For now I have applied my change proposal in
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-brown-versioning-link-relations-latest.html#rfc.section.2>,
but that doesn't mean we can't spend some more time with wordsmithing :-)
BR, Julian
