6. The method of claim 5 further comprising the step of notifying parent documents to the shared document of the change made to the shared document.
5. A computer-implemented method for making changes to shared content in a content management system, the method comprising the steps of: detecting a change to a shared document in a repository managed by the content management system; in response to the detected change, inserting applicability metadata in the shared document; each parent document voting to accept or reject the change made to the shared document; and removing the applicability metadata in the shared document if the votes received from the parent documents to accept the change meet a defined voting threshold.