[development] Requiring node revisions

[David Strauss]

I don't think a fixed number of revisions is as useful as a date cutoff.
If someone uses revisions so community members can edit nodes, it's very
easy to abuse a fixed number per node cutoff.

Greg Holsclaw wrote:
> http://drupal.org/project/revision_deletion is probably a long way from
> ideally suited for this, as it trims by age of revision, not the number
> of revisions, but it may be a decent starting point.
> 
> -Greg
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bounces at drupal.org
> [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Larry Garfield
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:17 AM
> To: development at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [development] Requiring node revisions
> 
> There are cases where I don't want revisions at all.  Maybe I don't want
> a paper-trail. :-)
> 
> If the code is considerably simpler if revisions are required, then I
> would say we should also consider it a requirement that we have
> auto-trimming of revisions in core, per node type, (only keep the last X
> revisions of node type Y), and document that setting it to 0 will have
> "no revisions saved".  That becomes the new alternative way of saying
> "revisions off", but has cleaner code.
> 
> --Larry Garfield
> 

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