Samuel Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 (edited) First of all, this is really great work, I love it! Then I would like to share with you some projects that inspired me and I think their approach of adding distributed version control could be a great addition to processwire. prose.io | A well done and clean content editor for github substance.io | Distributed version control for collaborative writing projects. jekyll & octopress | blogging engines on top of github Edited April 2, 2013 by Samuel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apeisa Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Samuel - welcome aboard! Can you describe more what kind of workflow you are looking for? Is it for content or code? (These are probably stupid questions, but I am not familiar with Jekyll etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 (edited) Its meant more for content.Octopress for example is a blogging engine build upon github. You gain the power of distributed version control for your blog posts and therefore a nice way of crowdsourcing and controlling information, content, typos etc.I believe that this kind of workflow can be a great addition to processwire and therefore making it even more unique and a very productive tool for collaborative web and content creation.I think the forking and merging concept is a great approach that can be extended to various areas of life other than only coding.Have a look for example at the http://interior.substance.io/ project. Edited March 11, 2013 by Samuel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teppo Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 @Samuel: what you're describing here sounds fascinating, at least in theory, though I'm not really sure how it would work in the context of ProcessWire. Which parts of current system would you imagine being useful for this new workflow -- would you still edit content with current admin tools and on page save rebuild site as static version and commit + push it to GitHub or am I completely misunderstanding something here? Isn't that pretty much how Jekyll works, by the way? Anyway, you may want to take a look at this thread, where somewhat similar idea (converting site to static HTML) is already being discussed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 I think you want something like this: http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/using-concrete5/dashboard/workflow/ It's not actually useful for me since I'm the only one editing websites, although I'm pretty sure collaborative teams will definitely need something like this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Posted March 11, 2013 Author Share Posted March 11, 2013 @Nicole: While Concrete 5 has a good approach for hierarchical organizations its not that practical for distributed crowdsourcing of content, where you don't even know your contributors in the first place. @teppo: Well, I have to admit regarding the practical way that I didn't think about it properly, since I am not that into the technical aspects yet. My topic title should probably be more like: "Distributed Version Control for ProcessWire" I would say so, that you can edit the content via the current admin tools, probably with a button "MAKE A PATCH" in the Frontend and then push the changes automatically to a github project. To achieve this, how I understood and as you mentioned, we would have to get rid of the database and make everything static, right? That way, you would host the whole platform on github. which is again interesting for coding and sharing templates, modules etc as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Oh, since you said you wanted content, I assumed you wouldn't be using GitHub... About Concrete5, I was referring to what you meant by "Workflow", after reading your reply, I realize it doesn't really fit into this situation . Oh well, I'm pretty sure anything can be done using Processwire, too bad I'm not good at that, yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 (edited) I would like to share with you the two projects that inspired my idea. prose.io | A well done and clean content editor for github substance.io | Distributed version control for collaborative writing projects. By the way; Is it possible to change the topic title? Edited April 2, 2013 by Samuel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogo Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 prose.io doesn't work with the www, only without. To what do you want to change the title? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Posted April 2, 2013 Author Share Posted April 2, 2013 What do you think about "Distributed version control for content"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogo Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 Seems ok to me, but the first answers won't make much sense then. Maybe you can edit your first post to include those tools? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Posted April 2, 2013 Author Share Posted April 2, 2013 Good, I edited the first post. I think changing the title to "Distributed Version Control For Processwire" makes for the following conversation the most sense. And probably, if you want, delete comment #8 to #12 Thanks in advance, for cleaning up and sorry for the mess, I'll think more properly the next time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogo Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 Title changed. No need to delete the posts IMO. They are part of the history 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiNNuT Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 ... I think the forking and merging concept is a great approach that can be extended to various areas of life other than only coding.... If only you could fork (certain parts) of someone else's life....now that would be great 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Posted April 3, 2013 Author Share Posted April 3, 2013 Sounds fascinating but I was of course referring more to cultural projects and their organizational aspects, that would hugely benefit, when implementing a git like version control system. For example, collaborative writing, tutorials & educational content, video-editing, open source hardware projects etc. Gaining productivity like a champ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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