On Sat, February 10, 2007 10:22 am, Bob La Quey wrote: > Hola amios, > > I am wondering if SVN might well be useful > for managing projects other than software > development. Keeping track of documents > that are constantly being revised is after all > a big part of project managment. > > Any thoughts or expereinces along these > lines? > > BobLQ
Different types of content management have different requirements. Tools like svn can be adapted and will do quite a good job, but tools designed more for the app may have advantages. An example would be web site content. A web site may have many contributors of varying technical ability and a complex security model. svn is far better than nothing for this, but is not up to the same level of utility of tools designed for that app. Also, the lack of true tags/labels is a chronic gripe for me with svn. The developers insist that their hokey use of the copy facility to make instances that, they say, can stand as labeled versions, is all anyone needs. But this is the exact same rhetoric we heard from the cvs developers when the svn people were criticising their refusal to address certain cvs deficiencies. I could see something like svn WITH TRUE TAGS being quite adequate for controlling boiler plate documents like legal contracts. But without tags, you would be reduced to trying to anticipate and save every possible instance of any document that might be asked for, which defeats the purpose of dividing the documents into clauses. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
