Hi, :-) On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 20:58, John M. Dlugosz <[email protected]> wrote: >> 1) The versioning system should be totally independent of Alfresco's > versioning, > > So, every time I post an updated version of a document such that it can be > freely read and used by others (e.g. update it on Alfresco), I must also > manually obtain a new portable version number, put that in the file when > saving it, and associate where that version can be found? No thanks. > > There is no need for yet another versioning system. We just require that > versions exist and are weakly ordered. That already is present. We do not > need the same mechanism and versioning authority to be used everywhere.
I don't think we need to update the "LibreOffice document version system" each time we work on a document. While a document is being worked on by the team members, before reaching publication state, we can use the Alfresco versioning system for keeping track of progress. We'd only need to manually update the LibO version system each time the English docs team spits out a new version of a document for the world to use. However, IMHO, we really do need to have a versioning system that is *totally independent* of the platform used to work on it. And, for me, the document's meta data was designed for this kind of purpose. By taking away the version info from the file name, you can have nice, localized, human-readable file names while still being able to keep track of versions and other worthwhile information. Basically, what we're trying to cater to here is the project policy of freedom of choice of working tools. That's why we don't really want to have a versioning system tied to *one* single platform. 3 cents (higher weekend rate) David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
