On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>wrote:
> Forcing instantiation of these objects is a >> problem in several places. That change I'm still contemplating since >> it's big... but, this change will actually make it somewhat easier. >> > > I've often found the User/Item thing confusing in Taste. Sometimes you use > Ids, sometimes Strings, sometimes the objects. I think dealing with Ids is > a lot simpler, but you might consider some utility tools that make it easy > for users to lookup the real things. Recommendation engines should generally only traffic in id's, not things. +1 > > Soliciting thoughts before I pull the trigger. >> >> > These all sound reasonable, but rather big, so I assume you will be adding > patches and doing the work in JIRA so that others can try out before > committing. Sounds like a perfect fit for a lazy consensus model of: > "Here's a patch that addresses this issue. I plan on committing in X days" > (for X > 2 or 3, usually) +1 as well. -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve
