In Estonia I have at least one upcoming project where school textbook will be published in LeMill. In this project authors are sceptical about other people editing their book. I agree with them that something like a school textbook is good in stable state where anybody is not able to modify that. The authors feel totally fine about Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike? license.
One solution to this kind of situations is to have two editing modes:
- collaborative editing (exactly as we have it now)
- branching (copy and edit feature that we had for some time in the beginning)
The first author should be able to choose the editing mode for her learning resources. These radio buttons should be in the About-page for learning resources (web pages, presentations, exercises, PILOT's).
See the UI prototype screenshot:
http://lemill.org/trac/attachment/ticket/1642/editing_settings.png
Text used in the UI:
Editing settings
You can choose how other people can edit this learning resource and if the draft version is hidden from others.
Anybody can edit this learning resource
Other users can only edit a copy of this learning resource
Draft version is hidden from other users
The same settings are used in #1726
If resource has been already edited by several people (for example http://lemill.net/content/overview-of-lemill/view) then the first author (Tarmo) has a possibility to change the editing mode. It means that Hans, Jukka and Teemu can't edit that resource anymore and have to make a copy.
