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Subject: RE: [trans-ws] Collaborative editing of the spec
- From: Stephen.Flinter@connectcgs.com
- To: trans-ws@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:19:43 +0100
Magnus,
1. The wiki supports this automatically.
When you edit and update a page, the page has a link 'Back in time'
at the bottom. You can use this to track changes, and rollback if
necessary. At present, this mechanism is pretty rudimentary, but
I believe that the developers are working on something more sophisticated.
2. The notifications are handled through
RSS. Check out www.bloglines.com for a web based RSS aggregator,
or FeedDemon (http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/index.asp) for a windows
based one, if you're not familiar with RSS. Effectively, what will
happen is if you subscribe to the feed, your feed aggregator will poll
it on a regular basis (say every 2 hours), and you'll see any changes there.
3 & 4. The idea behind wikis
is that everybody can add whatever they like, and that through the editing
process it all gets cleaned up properly. What I would suggest is
that people put their own contributions & annotations directly onto
the appropriate page, and we can remove all of this in the final publication.
The typical approach that you see in wikis is that people surround
their own contribution with horizontal lines (e.g. see the note on this
page: http://212.147.140.51:2500/wiki/show/requestQuote to see what I mean).
Obviously, people will have to be sensible
about how they edit this, and not just change anything they want just because
it suits them.
Anyway, good to hear that there is some
appetite for this.
Regards,
Steve
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"Magnus Martikainen"
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21/09/2004 18:07
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Hi Stephen,
This is a great initiative!
I am all for it, it should help us a lot to keep the specs up-to-date if
everyone that identifies an issue can go in and change it directly.
But obviously with that freedom
comes some responsibility, and I guess we may need to put together some
guidelines for how we should work.
I am not familiar with Wiki
or RSS so I have a couple of questions:
* Is it possible to track the
history of the content, retrieve an “old” version, or see exactly what
changes has been done and perhaps reverting to an earlier version?
* Is it possible to get notifications
when content is changed and to see what changes were made?
* It could be useful to be
able to do edit the content as a “change proposal” without it explicitly
being part of the “official” content until it has been signed off by
others. Would this be possible?
* Is it possible to annotate
changes with comments explaining why they were made?
Thanks a lot for taking your
time in setting this up!
Magnus
From: Stephen.Flinter@connectcgs.com
[mailto:Stephen.Flinter@connectcgs.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:51 AM
To: trans-ws@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [trans-ws] Collaborative editing of the spec
All,
given that a number of people are tasked with editing the spec, I thought
that a collaborative environment such as a wiki might be useful. To
that end, I spent a few hours creating a wiki, and making it publically
available.
Check out: http://212.147.140.51:2500
For those of you who use RSS feed aggregators, there is also as RSS feed
available, so you can follow progress on the doc: http://212.147.140.51:2500/wiki/rss_with_content
The wiki engine (Instiki - www.instiki.org) is supposed to have PDF &
LaTeX export functionalaity, but that appears to be broken at the moment.
However, when I get that sorted, it should mean that we can produce
a printable copy of the spec directly from the wiki.
Take a look, and let me know what you think, and whether you reckon it's
worth pursuing with this approach, or whether the posted/emailed Word docs
are better.
Peter, if you're happy with this approach, feel free to post a link on
the TransWS home page. I'll keep the wiki server up for the duration
of the development of the spec (and perhaps move it to a more permanent
home if this exercise is successful).
Regards,
Steve
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Connect Global Solutions
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