Hi,

On Apr 1, 2009, at 9:31 PM, twk3 wrote:

>
> Using an xwiki space for help documentation for a product. The issue  
> being that the entire help documentation for an older version of the  
> product still needs to be available for people using that product.
>
> My current plan is to have one main space for all the documentation,  
> then add a new space for each version, and do includes for the  
> proper documents using their revision numbers.
>
> Space versioning would make this easier, or basicallty a space  
> variable that has a record of the revisions of all child documents  
> at the time the space version was... versioned.

Space versioning doesn't exist natively yet. It's one feature I've  
added to the use cases for our new model:
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/XWikiModel20

> My questions are:
>
> 1. Is there a better way for me to do this?

Have one space per version without doing includes on revision numbers.  
Basically copy all documents in a space when a version is released.

> 2. Would space versioning, or something of the like be easy enough  
> to implement that I could just make my own plugin that handled it.  
> (An intermediate java dev, but a xwiki novice)

I guess you could implement some hadhoc version by storing all  
versions of each document in a given space and implementing some save/ 
restore based on this. It looks overkill for your need though.

>
> 3. Should I really be viewing multiple revisions at all? The  
> rollback function works fine, but I've noticed issues in viewing  
> revisions, and I'm wondering whether it was intended only for  
> revision comparison.

Viewing revisions should work fine. Please open jira issues if you  
find problems.

Thanks
-Vincent

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