More questions. Still trying to grasp what Alfresco versioning can and cannot do. Sorry if I'm thick, but I doubt I'm the only person reading this thread that is confused or unclear on the topic.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:59 PM, David Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >> You mean, not store the files on the wiki? But only on Alfresco, with links >> from the wiki? > > Well, you can store the files on Alfresco, get public links to them > (not requiring a log-in) from http://media.libreoffice.org, and post > the links on http://libreofficeorg and the wiki (although on those 2 > sites you can't display the meta data). > > Or you can have http://media.libreoffice.org:8081 (the port number is > temporary, until its reconfigured to show on port 80) as your main > download point instead, showing all the document meta data and, > feasibly, a browsable preview of the document. So I can get (horribly long and user-unfriendly) download links to different versions of a document and post those links on wiki or website or wherever. That still doesn't solve the problem of how people know, ONCE THE FILE IS DOWNLOADED TO THEIR COMPUTER, what version of LO it's for. I'm sure I'm not the only person who downloads user guides and then (an hour or a day or a month later) can't easily tell what software version they were were for. What about people who want to go to, say, media.lo.org, browse around, and find individual chapters or books for a specific version of LO? (In other words, not following specific download links.) At the moment it's clear (by the directory structure: different folders for different LO versions) and the filenames. I don't understand how they will be able to tell this information if there is only one "Published" folder for each book, and one filename for each chapter. My questions are not just about how we, the Docs team, can work efficiently. Equally, or even more importantly, we need to consider how our consumers, the users, can easily find, identify, download, store and retrieve the docs they need. Another reason why different filenames for different LO versions are useful: when a user reports an error, they need to tell us which file it's in (or, in your system, which version of that file), because we need to know if it's an obsolete version or only applies to a specific version, etc. Also, I don't understand how, if all the versions of a file (both drafts and published) are stored under one filename, we can tell which are the published versions vs the drafts. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
