asterisk users - Nov 2003 - OT: Document Control System?

I'm sorry this is somewhat offtopic, but I do plan to use this to help 
me create documentation for the * project.. so I guess it is somewhat on 
topic :)

Anyways, I am looking for some sort of document control system.  It 
should act somewhat like a CVS where it keeps previous versions, allows 
people to submit documentation, keeps track of who has what document 
open etc.. etc..

The documentation also has to be written on a Windows desktop platform.. 
preferably would like to somehow use MS Word.

If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.  I saw 
some software called Laboratory Document Control System, but I don't 
have $999 for a single user license :) (or any money at all actually)

Thanks,

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At 10:28 AM 11/11/2003, you wrote:
>I'm sorry this is somewhat offtopic, but I do plan to use this to help
>me create documentation for the * project.. so I guess it is somewhat on
>topic :)
>
>Anyways, I am looking for some sort of document control system.  It
>should act somewhat like a CVS where it keeps previous versions, allows
>people to submit documentation, keeps track of who has what document
>open etc.. etc..
>
>The documentation also has to be written on a Windows desktop platform..
>preferably would like to somehow use MS Word.
>
>If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.  I saw
>some software called Laboratory Document Control System, but I don't
>have $999 for a single user license :) (or any money at all actually)
Check out the site http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk. 
If you are looking to create * documentation, I recommend that you get an 
account here and starting adding to it. For general purposes, you can find 
the TikiWiki site at http://tikiwiki.org/. This particular app provides 
security, versioning, submissions, etc.

--Ernest

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leif Madsen" <leif@radiokaos.com>
To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:28 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] OT: Document Control System?

> I'm sorry this is somewhat offtopic, but I do plan to use this to help 
> me create documentation for the * project.. so I guess it is somewhat on 
> topic :)
> 
> Anyways, I am looking for some sort of document control system.  It 
> should act somewhat like a CVS where it keeps previous versions, allows 
> people to submit documentation, keeps track of who has what document 
> open etc.. etc..
> 
> The documentation also has to be written on a Windows desktop platform.. 
> preferably would like to somehow use MS Word.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.  I saw 
> some software called Laboratory Document Control System, but I don't 
> have $999 for a single user license :) (or any money at all actually)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> +------------------------------------------+
> |Leif Madsen - http://www.hacklocalhost.com|
> +------------------------------------------+
> |    @| leif at hacklocalhost dot com      |
> |  SMS| sms at hacklocalhost dot com       |
> |  FWD| 18924          IAX| 1700-363-0761  |
> |iptel| 8972-1969    sipph| 1-747-386-1618 |
> +------------------------------------------+
I think you can get win binaries for CVS from cvshome.org, or at least you can
set it up on a *nix box and get a windows client.

There is an up and coming alternative to CVS that is moderately popular, called
"subversion."

We use SourceSafe on our windows network, and it works sufficiently. It's
nice to have around versus nothing.

If you can convince your people to do the documents in .rtf format, you
won't have any problems. rtf is primarily a text markup format vaguely
similar to html. You would be able to diffs a lot cleaner using that or another
text format rather than using the default word format.


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Andrew Thompson

> Anyways, I am looking for some sort of document control system.  It 
> should act somewhat like a CVS
What's wrong with using CVS???

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On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:28, Leif Madsen wrote:
> I'm sorry this is somewhat offtopic, but I do plan to use this to help 
> me create documentation for the * project.. so I guess it is somewhat on 
> topic :)
> 
> Anyways, I am looking for some sort of document control system.  It 
> should act somewhat like a CVS where it keeps previous versions, allows 
> people to submit documentation, keeps track of who has what document 
> open etc.. etc..
> 
> The documentation also has to be written on a Windows desktop platform.. 
> preferably would like to somehow use MS Word.
Are you trolling here, or are you just clueless about the people who
will be helping contribute to your documentation? I'm sure I am not the
only one here that goes weeks on end without touching windows. Screw
Word and its largely bloated file formats. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>