Re: Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Renumbering CFIs

["Glotmorf" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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...?)

						Glotmorf

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