[geeklog-devel] GSoC idea: Versioning

[cordiste]

This would be a nice feature.

::Ben

2010/2/26 Euan McKay <info at heatherengineering.com>:
> I once did a simple versioning plugin that worked with a hacked
> staticpages plugin.
> It used an "on-save" hook, and instead of overwriting the staticpage
> into the database, it added a new row in the table with an incremented
> "version" column. It could easily then work with any other plugin that
> was activated in the admin page and had the required functions for
> accessing the versioning plugin's API.
> You could set the number of versions to keep, or a time period (e.g. 1
> month) and older items would be deleted.
>
> I didn't get so far as to do any diffs, but if you have two versions
> in the table, you can easily do that when required.
>
> The only real issue is with images in stories and staticpages - if the
> image changes, or is removed, then you lose that content. But perhaps
> that is unavoidable, unless you want to start caching old images as
> well, in which case you could quickly get a very large cache of
> images.
>
> Euan.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 15:58, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:
>> This is another idea that has popped up again and again over the years:
>> The ability to track changes in a story (in content and who changed it
>> and when), including the ability to go back to an earlier state.
>>
>> Instead of building it into stories specifically, could this be
>> implemented as a plugin? The PLG_itemSaved API function was introduced
>> with that idea in the back of the mind.
>>
>> There are some challenges here and I'm not sure they can actually be
>> solved. Like what exactly do you save as the "diff" and how can you roll
>> it back? The UI is also an interesting challenge. In any case, this
>> would probably require a few more API extensions and changes on the
>> other side (e.g. in stories) to use it.
>>
>> Just throwing this around for some feedback ...
>>
>> bye, Dirk
>>
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