On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Paul Newby wrote:
> Well, I think the main point is that this thread has fingered
> a distinct major area of responsibility between 'style' and
> 'content' that belongs to site editors. Editors generally
> need to have enough resources and authority to allow
> them to reference articles that may have been written in
> one context but are to be used in another. So this
> group may take ownership of a topic tree (which may be
> empty of article content), and need permission
> to pull article content into a (possibly separate) topic
> tree. But editors generally won't need to have authority
> to modify the content of the referenced articles; they
> really only need to control article display behaviour
> in the context in which they have been given responsibility.
Agreed.
> Maybe looking at the problem from the coal-face of
> the code it's obvious some kind of supercharged symbolic
> link is the way to go...
*blush* OK, you got me.
> however it's done it seems the
> editorial function is pretty important, on par with style
> or content management, and it would be a big advantage
> if the tools available for editorial management are
> clearly deliniated and differentiated from style or
> content management.
OK, agreed. Someone in the orkplace talked to me about it, and
the term 'symlink' is too loaded with meaning for us unix-heads,
and I think it affected the discussion to quite some extent.
I propose the term aliases, and that we start defining what
properties would be content, and what would be properties
of both aliases and originals (targets), whereever the
target may live. How it is implemented in the core, and
how it is presented in the admin interface is at this
moment of relatively little importance.
To kick it off, here's my idea:
article content:
title, content, abstract, author, url, revisor, revised,
revision, approved, approver, locker, locked
article alias/target:
calstart, caldays, name, score
article dunno:
creator, created, extra*, view, icon, print, type
topic content:
description, revised, revisor, revision
topic alias/target:
name, owner, score
topic dunno:
extra, creator, created
Bye,
Emile
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