Re: Artwork Versioning System

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:57:46 +0200
Lukáš Lommer <drom kdyne net> wrote:

> Bruno Santos píše v Út 07. 08. 2007 v 14:58 +0100:
> > Hey,
> Hi Bruno
> 
> > 
> > I've been thinking in a efficient way to implement a versioning  
> > system. Something that allows to have an hierarchical
> > representation of the several different versions especially from
> > themes.
> > 
> > I've already found a good solution to that problem. A Preorder Tree 
> > [1] should handle that quite well. It's easy efficient to get the  
> > necessary information( 1 query).
> > 
> > My actual problem is more in the interface design. I'm wondering
> > of how can we choose the parent version of the artwork we are about
> > to submit without having a never ending list of our already
> > submitted works to choose from?
> Hm, some implementations I can remember now:
[...]
> - Update wizard (c) Microsoft :P
> 
> Hm, any other idea? The original implementation in AGO2 is not
> comfortable much, but I like it.

I wonder whether "Update wizard" isn't such a bad idea. This way when
the user goes to a page which their own artwork is on, they would see
some additional options that are not available to normal users. These
could include Edit, Update, Delete(?) and others.


> > 
> > Oh, by the way, this versioning system allows to create branches
> > from the previous works, instead of always following a linear
> > evolution.
> Wow, sounds good, what about to have a feture allowing you to easily
> branch any art you see (haha, wondering about licence locks for some
> CC-ed artworks :D)

Yes, does sound good, as long as it doesn't get too complicated!

Regards,

Thomas