On Saturday 08 April 2006 19:13, Jan Knutar wrote: > On Saturday 08 April 2006 19:14, Lourens Veen wrote: > > I'm currently trying to figure out who uses the site, what they > > want to do, and what kind of data is needed for that and in what > > formats. > > How about on-demand? Opensource tends to be an evolutionary process, > why not let the web follow that too. It seems to be like it'd be a > bit foolish to try anticipate all the needs and usage patterns of a > website in advance, and then set that in stone. > Go with the flow, be one with the stream. Afterall, what people don't > really need from a website, is design.
Well, open source software is developed (like most software, and in fact, probably most things) in an evolutionary way, but that does not mean that people don't sit down and sketch out a design before starting. Obviously, you can't anticipate everything, so the design needs to be extensible, but just hacking stuff at random is a receipe for disaster. IMHO... Also, at the risk of sounding like a marketing drone (I study computer science, honestly!), the whole point of this web site is to allow various people to communicate with each other. This web site is the infrastructure upon which the community will be built, and its shape affects the shape of the community, which affects the success of the project (I should have studied sociology I guess :-)). > > Where should these > > documents be stored, in a source code version management system, or > > is it just binary data that might as well be stored in a file > > system? > > I'd love a web interface to it, with any revision control information > available, as well as trouble-free download of arbitrary versions. > > The more fileformats that can be parsed into www and displayed, the > better, even better if they can be highlighted and diffed. > Downloadables for each format would be nice too. Copy&paste from > websites gets tedious in the long run. Hmm, a kind of uniform web-based version-aware document browser, connected to a uniform version-aware storage facility...that sounds interesting. Like webcvs/websvn but with a built-in file viewer. Hmm. Lourens
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