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Versioning/version control of books #29

Open colomet opened 6 years ago

colomet commented 6 years ago

Feature Scope

[ ] Accessibility and inclusivity
[ ] User interface (content creation)
[ ] User interface (network home page & catalog)
[ ] User interface (reading)
[ ] Import/export formats
[X] Authoring tools
[ ] Book themes
[ ] Integration with third-party services

Feature Description

For diffent cases we need to have the version of the book. We need an automated process for the versioning.

Maybe we can have 2 types of versions. PreRelease version for the control of versions before the Publication Date and the release versions,

I think we can have a version of a.b.c.d. numbers. Where:

A is incremented when adding, changing or removing PARTS.
B is incremented when adding, changing or removing CHAPTERS.
C is incremented when adding, changing or removing METADATA or LINKS while remaining compatible with previous versions,
D is incremented when a TYPO is fixed (so the update have to have the modification of just one or two words or characters)

Feature Use Case

We can compare the versions of the book after the cloning.

Other Notes

I do not know about the change of place of a chapter, if that is an A or B change of the version.

colomet commented 6 years ago

is the first step to keep the control of the clone books and the future comparation of copies.

https://discourse.pressbooks.org/t/version-control-to-between-copies-of-books-and-across-networks/106