[opencms-dev] Apply Subversion on OpenCms?

[Joe Desbonnet]

It would help enormously if the OpenCms software was split into a few
modules. The most important being separating the Content Repository
from the rest of the software.

A clean separation between the repository and the rest of OpenCms
would vastly facilitate projects such as this (ie a SVN based
repository) and the Laughing Panda Eclipse module etc.

It would also (in theory) make upgrades easier.

Just my 2c.

Joe.


On 8/31/06, James Sun <H.Sun at dcs.shef.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello guys,
>
> We currently maintain a (mainly static) website by storing the pages in
> SVN (similar to CVS) and regularly checking them out onto the webserver.
> This has
> some advantages:
> - multiple authors can edit pages simultaneously and resolve any
> conflicting edits using SVN's merge functions
> - authors can work off-line and check in their changes when back on-line
> - version control, with a mature set of tools for looking at version
> history, diffs, who did what, and so on
>
> We want to replace the site with a CMS-based version and are considering
> using OpenCms. The question is: could some content be stored in SVN, in
> order to
> get the benefits listed above?
>
> We know OpenCms has its own offline/online work mechanism, which also
> supports version control. But it stores page contents in the DB rather
> than a svn repository. One of the differences between SVN and a standard
> DBMS backend would be that the application would have to allow for a
> merge step when a change is submitted - i.e. when a user commits an edit
> OpenCms would have to query SVN to identify possible conflicts and, if a
> conflict existed, send the page back to the user to edit it. Would that
> be complex? If so, would it be less complex to introduce a new class of
> pages, whose content was stored in SVN?
>
> Cheers
>
> Haotian Sun
>
>
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