Re: [Fsedu-developers] New plan in FSA rating and document creation

[Peter Minten]

James Michael DuPont wrote:
> 
> --- Peter Minten <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > The implication of this idea is that book development is no longer
> > linear but
> > dynamic, branching into different versions all the time.
> 
> a wiki.

No, a wiki is linear. You don't have branches in a wiki, just one stream of
patches. It's the comparision between a segmented line and a tree.

> >  A version of
> > a book
> > can be seen as the collection of the patches (revisions) that form
> > it.
> 
> So you can print out the current wiki as a pdf anytime?

You can print out the current document at any time yes.


> > The technical foundation for that is easy: a set of patches and RDF
> > metadata
> > about the patches is all you need. Organizational a book can be
> > managed like
> > software, in projects with a leader and a bunch of developers.
> 
> what do you mean patches? do you programs?

Patches of book files, or program files and anything else that may be useful.

Greetings,

Peter