On 07/16/2013 07:56 AM, Willem Ferguson wrote:
Hi!
> The solution for the problems with respect to metadata handling in dt is
> for some persons volunteering to actually write some code to address
> this issue.
Agree.
> I would like to be part of this but I write code so few
> times a year that I only consider my self 'capable' but not
> 'competent',
Same for me. I usually do some coding, but usually not in C++, but
mainly in higher langauges like Perl, Python and friends. And usually
cli definitely not GUI. So dt is somewhat over my capablities.
> especially when modifying a good programmer's code who is
> using approaches that I would not even understand.
Just tried to understand tagxtag (already tried to fiddle that magic out
while ago without success), but unfortunately, not yet. I think this guy
is one of the ingredients to get my substring search working as actually
the basic query againts the vocabulary is the right one.
Just the two subsequent queries do some magic with this tagxtag approach
that (as far as I understand it) should select the most likely keyword
based on the assumption that it might be the same as the one already
used in the past.
> Any volunteers out
> there? I will assist in any non-programming way.
Dito.
> We must not make the error here of talking about 'the developers' as if
> they are the 'responsible persons' for dt.
Perfectly agree.
> If one comes from the
> Microsoft or Mac world, it is easy to think of 'the developers' as some
> entity 'out there' like Adobe, Microsoft or some company that is
> independently developing and marketing software.
One point, the other point is, that if you write tools like dt you
usually have a lot of users, but only very few developers on board and
recruitment of developers is hard in a community of "only users".
> The point of open
> source software is that the whole world can be part of 'the developers'.
Yep.
> Open source is about collaboration and co-operation. What can we do to
> help solve the metadata problem?
I fear the learning curve is quite steep here.
Some helping hand from the gurus out there would be great.
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