Both sites support versioning, checkin/checkout, diffing, and most<div>of the technical features of a vcs. What they don&#39;t have is parallel</div><div>merging, but I could install that if we ever had enough simultaneous</div>
<div>editors to need it. The way PG operates with everything validated</div><div>by WWers first, for good reason, that will be a long time in the future.</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:35 AM, don kretz <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dakretz@gmail.com">dakretz@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Keith J. Schultz <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:schultzk@uni-trier.de" target="_blank">schultzk@uni-trier.de</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Don,<div><br></div><div>You pretty well sum up what is wrong at PG.</div><div><br></div><div>You begin by describing what a user can do that is the</div><div>tool offered for editing to the user. Simple and idiot proof.</div>

<div><br></div><div>What you have forgotten is that the to with its user friendly interface</div><div>is actually muscling databases and vcs-system behind the scenes.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote>

</div><div>I have not forgotten. I write those kinds of backend software. Two of them</div><div>are the ones used at DP-Itsly and <a href="http://eb.tbicl.org" target="_blank">eb.tbicl.org</a>. One is loosely based on</div>
<div>DP. The other is based on plain-vanilla wordpress and I can give you an</div>
<div>account to edit any of the EB articles using any of the various wp editors,</div><div>including RST, markdown, and the customized one I&#39;m using with my</div><div>own toolbar on it. I&#39;m thinking about integrating anthologize to support</div>

<div>multiple output formats, including epub and pdf.</div><div><br></div><div>One is 100% custom software except for phpbb3 (just like DP.) The</div><div>other is 95% OTS software, 4% OSS pluginis for wordpress, and</div>

<div>1% custom configuration software.</div><div><br></div><div>The difference is that I start from user requirements and let them</div><div>determine which tools to use on the backend. I&#39;m extremely frustrated</div>
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here because no one seems to want to talk about user requirements</div><div>and everyone is eager to talk about their favorite technology..</div></div>
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