Andrew Atkinson wrote:
Bruce
If you have beginners, I personally would stick to one that does have a central record somewhere, if you want to support decentralised systems fine, but set it up in a way that the beginners can just log onto the 'central' record and have to 'commit' every change. I have now tried using SVN with at least 3 sets of caving data. Trying to get people to understand a simple update and commit routine is hard enough, without the decentralised options, that I also find confusing. I would only go down that route for expeditions where it is difficult/impossible to talk to the central.
I have had that experience. Getting people to use SVN is hard enough. I'd say that to get it to work, the easiest path might be https+svn. (password protected) Getting people to use ssh can be an uphill battle. But somebody needs to host the repository. Using a public service may not be a good idea for survey data. aaron