[Zope3-dev] PythonProgrammerTutorial: questions, comments, and feedback

[Tim Hoffman]

Hi

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 10:01, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > However, unless my understanding is correct ... the DCWorkflow version
> > 2 model would cause the document to be "retracted" (and cause it to be
> > non-published) if the author edits the document after it has been
> > published.  Depending on a site's policy, I think this behavior is
> > correct ... however it places a lot burden if one wants to make some
> > minor edits.
> 
We have been working with this very issue lately. With versioning I
would hope to see the following.

Document has been published at some point.
Document is edited - new version is created which is not currently
published.
Previous version is still the currently published document.
Edited version submitted for review
Edited version is approved, and is now the published version.

The whole document could also be retracted despite having published
version.

Wishfull thinking I know. But to be honest anything less than capability
means that the environment is considered a toy (which is the very
problem I have at the moment.)

Rgds

Tim

> Depending on the relationship between editors and reviewers, both
> models are useful -- even within one site.  Sometimes the reviewer's
> function is to prevent "bad" content from being posted by arbitrary
> contributors.  Sometimes the reviewer's function is to decide on where
> and when an item is posted, and possibly to give the author feedback.
> These may need different policies -- perhaps by having different
> categories of authors.
> 
> > Given the current CMF model, it is rather painful to publish an single
> > folder of documents or an entire folder tree at once -- each document
> > is independent and has no relation to its parent folders.
> 
> Good point!
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> 
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