There is an interesting post and thread at Slashdot about the possibility of using Subversion, open source software for keeping track of versions written by numerous collaborators, with LaTeX, or any file type, for that matter. Some mention the usefulness of Google Docs, others Git, an alternative to Subversion. Microsoft Word has version tracking, I know, though I have always figured that such a feature would render the program near inoperable. Is this people's experience with Word's version tracking?

Any thoughts about a Subversion or Git system on Hephaistos Text? These would seem a better way to keep projects, even those with only a few members, up-to-date and keep collaborators productive. Privacy settings could be set for each project, so that authors could control exactly who can view the work being done.