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Re: poor version management in archetype editor


On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Bert Verhees <bert.verhees@rosa.nl> 
wrote:
> A part of version-management is version-numbering.
>
> One should be able to distinguish major versions and minor updates.
>
> A major version would, for example, be another concept to achieve the 
> same
> medical purpose, for example (not real life) add some more ways to 
> take
> bloodpressure, f.e. a new tool/way to do this.
> Minor versions would be, for example, removal of small-errors typo's 
> etc.
> For the minor versions I would recommend to use an extern version 
> tool like
> SVN
> For the major-versions, I would like to propose new features to
> archetype-editors, and a change of the version-part of the 
> ArchetypeID.
> But a change of a path-ID, even if it is repairing a typo, would be a
> major-version, because it possibly effects the retrieval of data in 
> the
> OpenEhr-system (by AQL).


Actually changes that narrow down the constraints in the current
version should lead to a new version of the archetype. It should be
possible to specify these rules formally and implement them in
archetype editor so that "minor" changes would not accidentally
invalidate data previously created with the same archetype.

Regards,
Rong

>
> Bert
>
> Bert Verhees schreef:
>
> Thomas Beale schreef:
>
>
> The tool on its own does not do version management - just as Word does
> not version manage the documents you create with it. This is not to 
> say
>
>
>
> As a matter of fact, Word has (kind of) version-management in it.
> Previous versions of a document are, in that case, stored in the 
> current
> document.
> However, this solution I would not propose as a solution for 
> archetypes,
> it would make them hard to read.
>
> Bert
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