[Zope-PTK] Workflow - security model

[Jay, Dylan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Bernstein [mailto:webmaven@lvcm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 4:17 AM
> To: Paul Everitt
> Cc: Jay, Dylan; 'zope-ptk@zope.org'
> Subject: Re: [Zope-PTK] Workflow - security model
> 
> 
> Paul Everitt wrote:
> > 
> > If you are going to allow multiple people to make 
> independent changes,
> > you'll also have to have some diff-and-merge capability.  
> Of course this
> > gives zero help on binary things like gifs, and very little help on
> > tag-oriented things like XML.
> > 
> > Still, the points you raise are really interesting and 
> certainly valid.
> > Looks like we need to make Zope a Subversion server, so 
> we'll have to add
> > change sets and diffs. :^)
> 
> The ZCVSMixin product may be usefull here:
> 
> http://www.zope.org/Members/sspickle/ZCVSMixin
> 

I have yet to try this however the problems I see with this are:

- Its not transparent. Zope's idea of versioning and CVS need to be very
tightly linked. I like the idea of CVS being another ODB implementation (be
it a really slow and inefficient one)

- Becuase of this reason this doesn't really work for a content management
application. For content management the idea of workflow has to
configurable, have a customized gui and again be transparent to Zope.