On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:39:14PM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > First, we need to have a large set of topics (questions and answers) in a > parseable format (I suppose XML is easiest here :). It might seem strange at > first, because we don't have any technology to query them. Yet having a > large set of topics will help us to identify good and bad technologies. > After all, a knowledge base is as good as its search engine, and you can't > test/validate a search engine without sufficient amount of topics.
Just a quick thought, what about the following XML format?
<kbase:issue id="...">
<title>...</title>
<maintainers>
<dev>...</dev>
<dev>...</dev>
</maintainers>
<keywords>
<key>...</key>
<key>...</key>
</keywords>
<synopsis>
...
</synopsis>
<environment>
...
</environment>
<analysis>
...
</analysis>
<solution>
...
</solution>
</issue>
as text:
<p>...</p>, <e>...</e>, <pre>...</pre>
This isn't that difficult (e = emphasise, pre = code listing) without much
mark-up. I just thought emphasising text is important as well as the no-wrap
code blocks (<pre>).
> So, in short:
> +------------------+---------------------------+--------------> time
> | Create a generic | Write up topics in this |
> | XML format for | XML format and store them |
> | the topics. | on the SVN repo |
> +------------------+------------------+--------+------------+
> | Search for good candidates | Test the candidates |
> +-------------------------------------+---------------------+
I just received one (1) draft topic from Kugelfang. Come on people, you're
all better than that :)
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
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