Those of you who frequent the irc channel know i have been redesigning the
scouts website. I plan on it becoming a multi user site with the scouts
editing and posting posts / pages. Revisions would be a useful tool to
have. As is the Menu plugin that's available in core.

So a +1 from me.



On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Chris J. Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> What it sounds like is that you would have a plugin that gave you extended
> permissions on posts.
>
> You would be able to "assign" a post to a user, and while it is assigned
> to them, only they, and any super admins, could access and make changes.
> Once they are done, the post could then be assigned to the next person in
> line, etc.
>
> There are already plugins that allow for this workflow of assigning post
> objects to people, with corresponding permissions tokens. Having revisions
> would allow you to revert a change that User A made while they had access,
> for instance.
>
> On Feb 2, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Philip Buckley <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> As an end-user rather than a developer, I must admit I don’t really
> understand the significance of “in core” versus “in a core plugin”.
>
> I find Owen’s comparison of Revisions with Taxonomy intriguing. Taxonomy,
> as I understand it, is in the abstract about how you group things (in the
> case of Habari those things are posts) and Revisions, one could say, in the
> abstract are about how you deal with the history of something (in the case
> of Habari a post) If the logic is that taxonomy (the abstract) is in core
> and concrete things can be done with it in plugins, e.g. a menus plugin or
> a categories plugin, then I can see the logic of Revisions in core that can
> be used via plugins to do concrete things, e.g. build a wiki or an
> editorial workflow. Is that the logic?
>
> One thing that has been mentioned in the course of the discussion is the
> potential of building an editorial workflow on Habari with Revisions. This
> is something I have thought about before, and I am very excited by the
> potential. What I have thought about before is an editorial workflow in a
> multi-user setup, and the one fundamental thing I would need is a way to
> prevent 2 people editing the same post at the same time. If I understand
> correctly how Owen has implemented revisions, the revisions made by 2
> people of a post would result in each of their revised versions being
> stored, so one could always go back to one or other person’s version.
> However, for what I have in mind I would really need a single post that was
> edited by person A, then by person B (or vice versa, by person B, then by
> person A), but not by the two simultaneously. Does anyone have any thoughts
> how theoretically this could be implemented? And whether it would be a
> difficult or easy thing to implement?
>
> Philip
>
>
> On 1 Feb 2013, at 03:12, Owen Winkler wrote:
>
>  Hey guys,
>
> I added core code to implement revisions in API in 0.10. The basic idea is
> that revisions are always on within core, and plugins modify or disable
> that functionality and provide the otherwise non-existent UI for it.
>
> There's a discussion going on in the issue tracker about the feature right
> now. Your opinions (reply here?) are appreciated.
>
> https://github.com/habari/habari/issues/454
>
> Thanks!
> Owen
>
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