Comments on Action:draft-brown-versioning-link-relations-03

Julian,

some comments on the link relation draft:

2. Terminology

It is not clear to me, what the meaning of 'check out' and 'check in'.  
Also, the text (IMO) creates the impression that versioning can only  
take place when 'check out' and 'check in' are applied. However, a  
resource could also be versioned by the server upon any modification  
made by a client regardless of any 'checking out' or 'checking in'.  
The link relations specified would still make sense.

Assuming that 'checking out' and 'checking in' are operations on  
resources, I think the draft should address how clients achieve these  
operations. This would at least involve another link relation and  
specification how to use the linked resource to perform a checkout.

Or am I misunderstanding what the draft is trying to do?

Appendix A

It should be 'working-copy' instead of 'working-resource'.


I am glad to see this happening. Covers a lot of stuff that comes up  
in almost every project. Thanks.


Jan




On Nov 20, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

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> (FYI)
>
> This update to yesterday's draft is purely editorial, moving each  
> link relation into a proper subsection, and using the correct IANA  
> registration template as defined per RFC 4287.
>
> At this point we'd like to ask the community for final feedback; we  
> are planning to request publication in two weeks from now (Dec 04).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Julian
>
>
> [email protected] wrote:
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts  
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>> 	Title           : Link Relations for Simple Version Navigation
>> 	Author(s)       : A. Brown, et al.
>> 	Filename        : draft-brown-versioning-link-relations-03.txt
>> 	Pages           : 11
>> 	Date            : 2009-11-20
>> This specification defines Atom link relations for navigation between
>> a resource and its versions.
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