[Architecture] Improvements to Revision Management in G-Reg

[Senaka Fernando]

#1 is also a change in the UI s/version/revision/ only for the GUI and
documentation. #2 is and improvement actually.

Thanks,
Senaka.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Srinath Perera <srinath at wso2.com> wrote:

> +1 for #2 .. is that the only change?
>
> --Srinath
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Senaka Fernando <senaka at wso2.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As per feedback from Tharindu yesterday, we felt that the current setup
> for
> > revisions in G-Reg has a few usability concerns.
> >
> > 1. We still call it version instead of revision - fixing this was
> postponed
> > since it involves a great deal of API changes, and it also drills down
> upto
> > the schema if we are to fix it completely. While we can have "fixing the
> > whole thing" as a long term goal, we still can fix the UIs and
> Documentation
> > such that people would understand that as revisions.
> >
> > 2. Display the HEAD revision under the revision list page - currently we
> > don't show the latest, and Tharindu accidentally expected the previous
> > version to be the latest - a common mix up any other user can also run
> into.
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Senaka.
> >
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*Senaka Fernando*
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Associate Technical Lead; WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com*
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