Re: RoadMap

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Jason Pincin wrote:

> > - We need coding standards.  Things like "an indentation should be X
> > spaces".  Studies show that 4 is best, and it's what I prefer.   Yes, I'm
> > really tired of seeing Jason indent his code by 8 columns.
> 
> Working on fixing this as I edit things.  Discovered the wonderful vi command to set tab
> spaces.  Does that update the tab size when I save the file out dan?  I was actually using
> three, but if people prefer, I'll switch to 4.  No biggie.

Look at your HTML code.  It isn't 3. :)

> > - New Taxonomy should be in place for beta
> 
> Thought I mentioned that.  If not, I'll add it.

as a description, but not as a job.
 
> > - Re-design the external link backend.  
> 
> I don't know what is meant by this.  I thought this was related to the
> different formats and stuff below which you suggest removing from
> Beta?  If I'm confused, someone please correct me.

I'm refering to the spec document you and I did via IRC which is in PS.

 
> > - The last item, "Content Format Scripts" prolly shouldn't be beta
> 
> See above.

in your doc you said:


         Content Format Maintenance Scripts (This may not make Beta) 
              Scripts that handle the conversion of documents to other
formats, to make documents available in as many format types as possible
for the user to retrieve. Things included are DocBook, PalmDoc, HTML, and
more.

I'm saying it should definately not make beta.  Mostly becuse I don't it
can be done in one month with the rest of the list we've got going.
 
> > - Not sure I like AC question posts.  No, I'm really sure I don't like
> > that.  See /. for why.
> 
> Dan - what are you're thoughts on this?  
> 1) I didn't want to force people to sign up for an account just to ask a question.

I don't think that is too much to ask.

> 2) I was thinking ahead to the e-mail gateway, in which case anonymous questions might
> need to be allowed.

Well I never considered using the email gateway for question processing.
I'd rather force people to use a web form so we can control the format of
questions.  I don't want to see the email gateway regress into another
linux mailing list/newsgroup thingy.  I don't think we want to allow just
any kind of email traffic that we allow over the web, just becuase we can
Basically questions do not give us "useful information for most people".  
Ie, answers are much more valuable to us than questions.  Hence, we should
concentrate on making answers easy to contribute and questions are given a
much lower priority.

Also, please fix your email margins. 74 columns wide is standard. :)

> Thoughts?  Also, we could have a user preferance that allows people to
> disable anonymous questions from they're view.  Just an idea.  But
> mostly, think about the mail gateway for questions down the road...

Sounds like more processing that we probably don't have the CPU power for
with the current PHP code.  Generally AC comments have a very low signal
to noise ratio.  Either way though, I'm really against AC posts.  For /.
it makes sense, since people might be "attacked" for unpopular statements.
If someone wants to make unpopular statements on our site, they probably
are just trying to cause trouble.  We're not an advocacy site, we don't
need advocacy site features.
 
> Also, as everything falls under the moderation system - purging will
> not be a problem. Again - just food for thought.

I don't think we should ask the moderators to sift through that much info.
The more garbage they have to go through the less good stuff they'll
find/moderate.  Just becuase it can be moderated, doesn't mean we should.
Garbage in, garbage out.
 
> > - I think the list is too big for Beta.  Q&A should be for final.  I don't
> > see all the list being done in 1 month.
> 
> Well - I was gung ho for Q&A cuz it promoted site interaction.  
> Ultimately Dan probably has the heaviest word on this one since it
> will be 90% his job to impliment.  What are your thoughts Dan?

Fair enough.
 
> > Those are the biggies.
> 
> Appreciate your comments very much.  Looking forward to more by
> everyone.  I'm gonna work on the news now, put that up for review,
> come back and edit the road map some more... and then edit the news
> again based on commenting.

'K

-Aaron