On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Stanislav Paskalev <ksh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would imagine an implementation where by default the presentation > DAG is the same as the raw one and having additional commands (that > appear in the raw one as commits) to alter the presentation view. > > Do you think that this approach is proper and feasible ? > IMO it sounds both interesting and feasible (but not a small amount of work). It's essentially a timeline view using supplemental (human-edited) inheritance/grouping metadata. Because the timeline is the single most complex piece of UI-centric code, though, i would recommend using a different URI for such a feature, /timeline/alt or /alternate-reality. It would obviously need new commands to manipulate/maintain the "adopted" family groupings of artifacts. One important question which would need to be answered early on is how to store this metadata. In a new Artifact type (so that it's permanent and immutable) or in a plain DB table (which isn't "as permanent" as an Artifact, but it may not need to be). If it's in a new Artifact type, then it would obviously (because of its pseudo-mutable nature) require a way to update it for purposes of the alternate timeline (e.g. "newest update wins"). Anyway... There are lots of questions to pose and answer, but i think the idea has merit. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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