Re: [spoon-discuss] Renumbering CFIs

[Daniel Peter Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Date: Mon Jul 26 14:27:47 EDT 2004
> From: "Glotmorf" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Renumbering CFIs
> To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
>
> On 26 Jul 2004 at 13:37, Daniel Peter Lepage wrote:
> > > By the way, is there any reason why we put revision numbers on
> > proposals? It's often helpful to look back on prior versions of the
> > rules, because they can often change drastically and we don't keep old
> > versions anywhere else, but proposals tend not to change very
> > substantially, and the mailing list archives hold all the older
> > versions anyway... Why bother keeping them all in a database?
> > Same reason wiki pages have multiple revisions: ease of 
> rollback.  If the Administrator makes a mistake in applying a 
> change to a proposal, e can simply blow away the most recent 
> version and make the change again.  As in, presumably, pull up 
> version X of a proposal, make changes to it, and save it as 
> X+1.  Or (most recent iteration of modifications to that 
> proposal)+1, if the revision is done using a less-than-current 
> version of X.

So then there's no problem inherent in dropping them within the wiki, is there? It shows old revisions of all pages, but can't be used quite as revision numbering because, for example, a formatting typo by me while putting it on the wiki will mandate the creation of a new, fixed version, despite the fact that rules won't recognize this as a 'revision' per se, because the original version wasn't really the proper rule anyway.

> Mind you, once the proposal has actually been voted on, I see 
> no reason to keep the older versions, since the proposals can 
> no longer be changed. (Though a chain of hardlinks to the 
> emails that refer to prior versions might be useful, and take 
> up less space...?)

The hardlinks would probably not be very useful. Many proposals differ from their previous versions because of actions like, "In my pXXX, I replace the fourth 'of' with 'in' and change the third letter of the 48th word to a 'p'". That's no good without the earlier versions handy, and not much good with them.

-- 
Wonko

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