Specks, States and Releases

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Currently in CRASH! whenever a user uses the Release command everyone's model is brought in sync with those changes. In the server if we were to group all specks between release calls we would have an easy way to track states that the model has gone through to get from the original to the current.

Proposed Nomenclature

State 👉 A group of all the specks between two consecutive release calls
Speck 👉 Every change sent to the server (Add/Remove/Update)
Release 👉 A group of states agreed upon as a release by the modeller(s)

States

The server could, on each release, fetch every speck between the current call and the last call. Compress this set by removing any selection calls or add/removes that contain duplicate geometry items etc. and then point to these specks should users want to browse through states or revert back to previous ones.

Release

Admittedly this is an idea Quite far down the pipeline. But being able to choose a 'release' and group a set of states together would be quite useful as a transmission/submission tool.