Hello Dave, Thanks for the information. It was very clarifying! It sounds like a good feature, and I agree it is very conflicting with our current workflow for the revision of the guides.
Perhaps we can leave this option on the table for other assignments for the Doc Team that may arise. Best regards, Felipe Viggiano Em qua., 14 de out. de 2020 às 17:08, DaveB <[email protected]> escreveu: > Hi Felipe, > > It shows good judgment to to keep an open mind. I gave my initial > assessment in my post: > > https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/2020/msg01984.html > > The Nextcloud versioning system is an excellent mechanism to use under > the circumstances for which it was designed. Let's say you and I are > cooperatively working on a document inside LOOL via our web browsers > (Not downloading, editing and uploading), then every time one of us uses > the LOOL "Save" option that saved edition is versioned and either one of > us can go back and recall/recover any one of the previous versions. In > my limited testing I found issues as to what we would do with the > recalled/recovered versions. The mechanism is very safe, but demands > absolute and total compliance to a working regime with no deviation > permitted, otherwise we could finish up in a confused mess. > > Through circumstances beyond our control, the Docs Team were obliged to > move our workspace arrangements from the "ODF Authors" Plone instance to > a LibreOffice NextCloud instance. In so doing we tried, as far as > possible, to retain the same or a similar reliable workflow where > contributors retracted (downloaded), edited and returned (uploaded) > edited/reviewed documents to our workspace. To continue with this > workflow and to adopt the Nextcloud versioning system, would mean that > the filename given by the first editor/author must never be changed for > any reason or under any circumstances (no extra or missing dots, dashes, > underscores, etc.), otherwise the Nextcloud versioning system fails and > becomes a hindrance, not an advantage to us. > > As I have said previously, I am *NOT* opposed to the very good Nextcloud > versioning system, but it is a solution to a problem we currently do not > have. > > Best Regards > Dave > > > On 14/10/2020 13:57, Felipe Viggiano wrote: > > Since I'm not familiar with the Nextcloud versioning system, I'm going > with > > option #1 as well. > > > > But I would like to keep an open mind about this for the future. Has > anyone > > tested this feature? > > > > Best regards, > > Felipe Viggiano > > > > Em qua, 14 de out de 2020 09:25, Samantha Hamilton < > > [email protected]> escreveu: > > > >> Option 1 looks great! > >> > >> Sam. > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 5:55 AM Steve (GMail) < > [email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> Option 1 for me. > >>> > >>> I'm unconvinced of the need for a versioning system. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Steve > >>> > >>> > >>> ------ Original Message ------ > >>> From: "DaveB" <[email protected]> > >>> To: "LibreOffice Documentation" <[email protected]> > >>> Sent: 13/10/2020 18:08:37 > >>> Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] [VOTE] On changes to documentation > >>> workflow. > >>> > >>>> Hi All, > >>>> > >>>> Other than Peter Schofield nobody else has expressed any thoughts or > >>>> opinions as whether or not we should adopt the NextCloud versioning > >>>> system, or should we continue with the proposed folder structure and > >>>> file naming format, so I propose a poll: > >>>> > >>>> Option 1. > >>>> Go ahead with the simplified folder structure and file naming format, > >>>> > >>>> or > >>>> > >>>> Option 2. > >>>> Adopt the NextCloud versioning system. > >>>> > >>>> I propose closing the vote at 17:00 UTC on Friday 16th. 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