On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:55:42PM +0100, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote: > smb writes: > > >I've been pondering change tracking, in the context of copy-editing, > > >but I haven't come up with a complete thought yet. > > > > > > > CVS? Should the Secretariat make CVS archives available to WG > > document editors? I've written a book and many joint papers via CVS; > > it works very well for line-oriented ASCII input, whether XML, LaTeX, > > nroff, or what have you. > > > > I think such a service would be a GREAT service for our WGs and document > editors/authors. Has the tools team looked at it at all? Every little open source software project uses version control systems these days. The IETF does not. And interestingly, the IETF even likes to standardize this stuff (look at the WebDAV RFCs). Personally, I liked CVS and I do even more appreciate SVN these days (which is actually a superset of WebDAV). I would love if the IETF could _offer_ subversion services for WGs who want to use this. It would be nice to be able to simple modify a document and post the diff in a common format instead of the arcane OLD: NEW: format which really boils the ocean if you have to rename/rewrite something throughout a document. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder International University Bremen <http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/> P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf