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Hermes: An open-source document management system

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Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

#32

The single, killer feature I'm looking for in a document management system (besides collaborative environment that we're used to from gdocs) is a way to stamp versions and have those be reviewed independently, with git like diffs across them. Think gerrit for docs.

Then a webui over git itself is better solution ?

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

#34

Maybee not the best name. Everyone here in Germany knows that Hermes is the name of the parcel shipping service thats notorious lose your goods. ;)

That's only because the scrooges don't have a stack of 5€ bills at hand.

Sacrificing one such bill with every delivery magically makes Hermes minions much more reliable.

Same applies to all the others.

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

#35

The single, killer feature I'm looking for in a document management system (besides collaborative environment that we're used to from gdocs) is a way to stamp versions and have those be reviewed independently, with git like diffs across them. Think gerrit for docs.

Do you mean document control, or diff on text contents?

For plain text, diff is do-able, but I don't know if comparing two PDFs can involve a detailed "diff" vs. a checksum, since the text could be the same but there's a change in layout, an image, etc.

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

#37

I don't know what it is about the name Hermes for software folk, it's apparently irresistible. I've heard the name used by three different companies for internal projects just in my own circle in the last year. This concludes my useless comment. This is just a joke, that you learn what Hermes means at one company and have to unlearn that when the next Hermes enters your life :p

It's also the name of the official project management procedures of the Swiss Government. Follow it to the letter and nobody can blame you for sinking a project.

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

#39

Maybe a slow day for me, but from the homepage and video it isn't clear - does it do anything that cannot be achieved with plain Google Docs?

It seems like it manages some metadata around google docs, but google docs is doing all the heavy lifting (creating/editing/sharing documents). Which begs the question, why? By titling itself as a document management system I would assume it would be something like paperless-ngx[0] or mayan edms[1]. The latter of which has a built in workflow system[2]. But by being tied to google docs you can't really self host the…

Utterly misleading to call this self hosted document management then, and defeats the purpose. Here's a front end to Google docs you can host, but you still need access to the internet, Google docs, and Google sees all your docs anyways.

No thanks.

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

#40

> Hermes uses Golang for the backend and Ember.js for the front end. It uses a PostgreSQL database for storage and Algolia to power its search capabilities. It also leverages several Google Workspace services for creating and modifying documents, sending email, etc. Great. 50 million incompatible parts combined with duct tape that is no better than Jira workflows with Google Docs, and less flexible. I can't wait to s…

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