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Piotr Strzyzewski
Piotr.Strzyzewski at polsl.pl
Thu May 7 10:31:23 CEST 2015
On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:55:25AM +0200, Tim Bruijnzeels wrote: Dear WG Members > > On 06 May 2015, at 18:14, denis <ripedenis at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> If an object is submitted without any changes it will always result in an update, because when we compare the object the "last-modified:" value will typically not match.(unless the update is done at sub-second speed) In other words what should be a "no-op" now results in a "touch" operation where only the "last-modified:" attribute is changed. > > > > Just an observation. This might actually be a useful side effect. It allows maintainers of objects to 'touch' their objects and show they are alive and actively maintaining their data even when nothing needs to change. I am sure some people in the community who are going to start monitoring "last-changed:" attributes to argue that data is out of date would appreciate that, or even request it. > > Sure, there is something to be said for this, but the downside of this > is that the version history of the object becomes very large, which > may not be desired. And the purpose of having such history is quite unclear. > As far as I know this was not explicitly specified beforehand, so it > would be good to have a clear WG consensus call on this now. +1 > For the moment we feel that it's probably best to apply the planned > 'fix' because the behaviour will then be consistent with no-ops until > now, but we can always revert this change when we get a clear > direction from the WG. +1 Piotr -- gucio -> Piotr Strzyżewski E-mail: Piotr.Strzyzewski at polsl.pl
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