Now, what would be the best way to build an Edition Manager–within Core, and not creating a new module altogether.
I have tried this in a small way earlier: i) Create content type called Edition. ii) Create all other usual content tyopes called News, Features, OpEds, Snippets… with each of these content types referencing Edition. iii) Create template for Edition content types. Mostly blocks which would display the respective Views. The Views would reverse-reference all nodes linked to it.
This is a rudimentary model I have tried in a small way.
Would this work for big sites (like a newspaper), where every day there is an edition?