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
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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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