+1 binding if the vote is still alive, which I'm not sure. Sorry for the delay, I've been very busy.
Regards Santiago On Dec 13, 2013 12:24 PM, "Gabriela Gibson" <gabriela.gib...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I thought that perhaps the initial description was a little terse, so > here is some more information: > > > Who uses PhraseBooks and why? > ----------------------------- > > An individual may use PhraseBook to keep a collection of their > personal compound commands(called 'tricks'), and tricks they obtain > from other Phrasebooks or as individual items. > > A business can use PhraseBook to organise tricks pertaining to > particular IT tasks or positions, and to provide organisational > memory, and a dictionary of processes used. > > A community can use PhraseBook to pool effort and quality check tricks > for use with their personal project or the product their community > uses or produces. > > PhraseBook is a communication tool & vault and specifically aims to > provide a structure that enables a community to keep track of, and > organise crowd-sourced tricks. > > Who better to design an user interface than the user community > themselves? > > > Use Case (and the original motivation for this idea) > ---------------------------------------------------- > > The other day on svn-dev mailing list, a user requested a Subversion > feature to show the current revision number. > > Subversion didn't need a new feature, and whilst the solution _looks_ > simple, it wasn't all that obvious either: > > svn info | sed -ne 's/Last Changed Revision: //p' > > We helped one user to a solution, but packaging the above trick into > > --svn-show-revision-number > > would help all users, and also a list of such tricks would inspire > users to make full use of svn's capabilities they so far have been > unaware of. The problem is a) how to share this efficiently b) how to > keep those shared tricks up-to-date! > > If we can package the above as a trick together with a test, and > present it in an accessible form, then all our users will have access > to this knowledge and the trick can be automatically checked to see if > it's still functional for every SVN release, and users can build up a > compendium that educates, and works for, the entire community, > (reasonably) realiably so. > > Ideally, the svn-user community on IRC will be able to use the Apache > voting process and tools to produce and maintain proven PhraseBooks > containing fully tested tricks which pertain to particular Subversion > releases. > > Building a community to create PhraseBook > ----------------------------------------- > > The actual implementation of PhraseBook is reasonably trivial, but to > create a design that will keep users and the data they produce and > want to use safe, is anything but. > > Thus spake Cassandra: "One user is difficult, two users gets tough, > an unlimited amount of users with unlimited freedom to do whatever > they want to do (some of which may be malicious!) is quite the tall > order." > > Most of the work to be done will be discussing the many ways this can > go wrong and the task will be to create a forum that takes pleasure in > ruthlessly dissecting the design until it coalesces into what it could > and should be. > > The prize we can win if we can get this right, is to create a tool > that will end up saving the entire IT community millions of man hours. > > And, if anyone can make this happen, the Apache community can. > > regards, > > Gabriela > > Ps.: I am as interested in opinions as to why this will not work, as I > am in ways of getting this done. A gently, but firmly wielded > precision sledgehammer is the perfect design tool for this project! > > The full proposal can be viewed here: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v1Y0qYI30jSzNNN-VyNTdORjY-d0B_uPLU62Ao4FuEI/pub > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Gabriela Gibson < > gabriela.gib...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to request an Apache Lab for my project idea. > > > > regards, > > > > Gabriela Gibson (g...@apache.org) > > > > PhraseBook is a tool for individuals, business and crowds to organize and > > maintain a personal or community-owned compendium of compound commands > and > > scripts, which can be standardized, shared, tracked and searched due to > > having a general compatible format and inbuilt tests. > > > > It is not tied to any particular operating system or software, it is a > > general tool to keep our working methods organized and to enable us to > > share and preserve them. > > > > <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; xmlns=" > > http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#"; xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"; > > xmlns:labs="http://labs.apache.org/doap-ext/1.0#"; xmlns:projects=" > > http://projects.apache.org/ns/asfext# > > "> <Project rdf:about="http://labs.apache.org/labs#phrasebook";> > > <name>PhraseBook</name> <shortname>phrasebook</shortname> <shortdesc > > xml:lang="en">A management tool for compound commands and > > scripts</shortdesc> <description xml:lang="en">PhraseBook is tool for > > individuals, business and crowds to organize and maintain a personal or > > community-owned compendium of compound commands and scripts, which can be > > standardized, shared, tracked and searched due to having a general > > compatible format and inbuilt tests. 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