[xwiki-devs] [xwiki-dev] [Proposal] Document comments should not create new versions

[Vincent Massol]

(resending - I sent it on the 6th to the wrong OW dev list...)

> If  we don't increase version then how is it going to appear in the
> history view. Namely, how would you see that a comment has been added?
>
> Of course we would still need to send notifications even when
> comments are added.
>
> This is a general question about objects attached to a document. As
> of now I'm not sure we should treat some objects differently than
> others.
>
> Just to step back and play the devil, why is it bad that document
> version is increased when comments are added?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> On Aug 24, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is more a matter of opinions. Should a comment increase the
>> version of a document? I'd say yes, but the view of simple users is
>> that a comment should not affect the document, as it is something
>> describing the document, not belonging to the document. So we should
>> have a parameter that configures this.
>>
>> WDYT?
>> Sergiu
>> -- 
>> http://purl.org/net/sergiu