Subversion fits for a content management system?

[Marcelo de Barros Alcantara <ca...@uolinc.com>]

Hi,
 
My doubt is if subversion fits as a content management system.
 
We are a big portal in Brasil with thousands of new documents created
every day. We intend in our new publishing system to keep versions of
the generated material.
 
I am asking this question because I could not find on the net any case
related to use subversion for a situation other than keep project
documents/source code.
 
Thanks in advance for any help
 
 
Marcelo Alcantara


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Re: Subversion fits for a content management system?

[Will Appleton <wf...@gmail.com>]

On 7/17/07, Konrad Rosenbaum <ko...@silmor.de> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Marcelo de Barros Alcantara wrote:
> > My doubt is if subversion fits as a content management system.
> >
> > We are a big portal in Brasil with thousands of new documents created
> > every day. We intend in our new publishing system to keep versions of
> > the generated material.
> >
> > I am asking this question because I could not find on the net any case
> > related to use subversion for a situation other than keep project
> > documents/source code.
>
> Are all people who create and edit documents developers or are
> there "normal" people, like graphics designers, journalists, etc. there as
> well?
>
> If they are all developers this will work quite well - eg. parts of KDE's
> web pages were "managed" in subversion (http://developer.kde.org) for a
> while.
>
> If even only one of them is less technical it will fail because the
> update-modify-commit cycle that comes quite natural to development is
> somewhat unintuitive for content creation.
>
>
>         Konrad
>
> Some of our business analysts are using SVN/TSVN as a poor man's content
management system.  We don't need a promotion model for these documents at
this point, though we could fake one with branches and permissions.  So far
this is working well for us.  The only downside to this setup is that the
SVN and TSVN documentation is written for programmers, and not the average
content creator.  Most of our non-programming SVN users have such basic
versioning needs that training hasn't been a very big problem.

-=W=-

Re: Subversion fits for a content management system?

[Konrad Rosenbaum <ko...@silmor.de>]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Marcelo de Barros Alcantara wrote:
> My doubt is if subversion fits as a content management system.
>
> We are a big portal in Brasil with thousands of new documents created
> every day. We intend in our new publishing system to keep versions of
> the generated material.
>
> I am asking this question because I could not find on the net any case
> related to use subversion for a situation other than keep project
> documents/source code.

Are all people who create and edit documents developers or are 
there "normal" people, like graphics designers, journalists, etc. there as 
well?

If they are all developers this will work quite well - eg. parts of KDE's 
web pages were "managed" in subversion (http://developer.kde.org) for a 
while.

If even only one of them is less technical it will fail because the 
update-modify-commit cycle that comes quite natural to development is 
somewhat unintuitive for content creation.


	Konrad

Re: Subversion fits for a content management system?

[Brian Krusic <br...@krusic.com>]

Hi Marcelo,

We use svn to manage our huge amounts of animations that change on a  
daily bases.

We even have a colocated site with a few svn repos for our  
international projects.

When we first started using svn (v1.2.3 days), we just put all of our  
stuff in it and through some years of growing pains and learning, we  
now carefully plan what our new repos will do.

We have about 10 repos total serving anything from code to animation  
files (Houdini and Maya).

I'm currently working on implementing a batch queueing (render queue)  
system to work with our repos.

The gist of it all, is that svn is very cool however without a well  
thought out plan, nothing tuens out well.

So my advice is plan out your dir structure and take into account  
file system limitations of what ever OS you run.  Also determine what  
does and what doesn't need to be under version control.

Once you have it dialed in, svn will save your a$#!

-Brian


On Jul 17, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Marcelo de Barros Alcantara wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My doubt is if subversion fits as a content management system.
>
> We are a big portal in Brasil with thousands of new documents  
> created every day. We intend in our new publishing system to keep  
> versions of the generated material.
>
> I am asking this question because I could not find on the net any  
> case related to use subversion for a situation other than keep  
> project documents/source code.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
>
> Marcelo Alcantara
>
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