danielv at netvision.net.il wrote:

> Hey, Squeakers, we're the object people, remember? ;-)
>
> A swiki page is just one way that a bunch of objects can put up a
> show...
>
> I suggest we try to think what sort of objects we'd like to be playing
> with, and how we would like to play with them, and take it from there.
>
> For categorization, for example, I rather like the way Celeste handles
> mail sorting - user written code scraps can be very effective filters.
> If today I can write "m particitpantHas: 'bob'" then any user should be
> to write something like "((cs authorHas: 'bob') and: [cs classesHas:
> 'browser']) and: [(Smalltalk changesets hasAny: [:c | c supersedes: cs])
> not]". Checking whether a changeset was  merged into the image would
> mean that the updates would have to remember somehow the names of the
> original change set someone posted on the list.
>
> What objects should we have, other than changesets?

.morphs and image segments probably. Large changesets and multiple changesets
should be
gzipped.

Karl

>
>
> Henrik Gedenryd <Henrik.Gedenryd at lucs.lu.se> wrote:
> > Lex Spoon wrote:
> >
> > > Overall, what do people think of this?  Can we axe the Projects, Tools,
> > > and Packages pages, and replace them with a single "All Projects" page
> > > (probably renamed to "Projects") ?  People who have actually used
> > > Freshmeat before, is this anywhere close to useful compared to those?
> > > :)
> >
> > In general, categorization doesn't work very well in settings such as this
> > one that don't have an "editor". It requires one person's idea only of how
> > to organize things. The very least we would need was that the hierarchical
> > structure of the Swiki wouldn't be an emergent result of everyone's
> > additions, but the result of a coordinated overall design decision
> > (reapplied every now and then). For comparison, imagine a collaborative
> > Roget's thesaurus with every contributor using their own categorization
> > scheme.
> >
> > Therefore the search function becomes crucial. I've had great problems with
> > locating things on the Swiki by search. As I remember, "truetype" got zero
> > hits, perhaps because the search is case sensitive. I've also had this
> > problem with other search terms.
> >
> > And it wouldn't be a bad thing if this would also search the auto-generated
> > fixes page too. Actually, if I should give a realistic estimate, I think
> > this kind of projects page would become useful only if auto-generated in a
> > similar fashion.
> >
> > Henrik