[development] Requiring node revisions

[Chris Johnson]

Robert has convinced me.  ;-)

P.S.  I only wish I had time to work on optimizing blocks or any other
bottleneck.  I enjoy that kind of work, but it's time consuming and I
have a hard time keeping up with the "must do" list.  :-p

On 6/8/07, Robert Douglass <rob at robshouse.net> wrote:
> So far, David has convinced me that we should make revisions
> automatically and all the time, and that we should work towards
> simplifying the UPDATE/INSERT workflow for nodes. Doing this, and
> simultaneously working on the interface and workflow for revision
> management, will allow us to become a next generation publishing tool.
>
> We gain:
> - a very straightforward of saving drafts
> - the equivalent of Angie's revision moderation - in core
> - easier programming API
> - less cluttered UI
> - improved preview workflow
>
> I spend a lot of time worrying about performance, yet this change
> doesn't concern me. People who are worried about performance would be
> better of finding a better schema for the block tables so that the block
> loading queries aren't an order of magnitude slower than all the other
> queries that run on any page.
>