On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:21:00PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 12:28:31PM -0500, The Editor wrote: > > On 1/31/07, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 3:08:27 PM, The wrote: > But what does concern me a bit here is that people not find themselves > being misled as to what the recipe does and does not do. It's been > my experience that when people think of "hierarchical groups", > what they're really expecting is to be able to write urls like: > > http://www.example.com/wiki/Kingdom/Main > http://www.example.com/wiki/Kingdom/Animal/Main > http://www.example.com/wiki/Kingdom/Animal/Canine/Main > http://www.example.com/wiki/Kingdom/Plant/Main > > As far as I can tell, this recipe doesn't really achieve this > goal (yet?), so calling it "hierarchical groups" feels a bit > like false advertising or something.
I agree. And I love this recipe, so I'm not dissing the recipe, but since it doesn't provide a total full-blown "hierarchical groups" functionality, and probably won't, just a mostly-hg layer over the top of the existing stuff, it probably needs a different name. A few suggestions: Hg (the original name) PseudoHierarchy PseudoHG HGLayer HGOverlay SubGroups Phylum Genus Clan Cluster GroupCluster (because it clusters groups together) > The recipe page also makes the claim: > > This recipe adds hierarchical groups functionality to > your website. The following items are included: group headers, > group footers, group sidebars, group attributes, config files, > styles sheets. They basically work in the way, and in the > order you would expect, including all default settings. > > I'm not sure that I agree that it works as most people expect. I second this concern. > I'm not saying anything needs to change, yet; I just know that > I'm concerned that many people will come looking to this recipe > to provide features of hierarchies that just aren't there (yet?). > > (And I fear that systems that promise more than they can deliver > can really kill a product or community.) Agreed! We don't want people not appreciating this recipe because it promises more than it delivers, because it does deliver nice things. (As an aside: I've found a problem with the $g1... variables and pagelists; they don't work. I think I know what the problem is -- the variables are being set from the current pagename, they aren't taking a pagename and processing it -- but I won't be able to work on a fix until tonight or tomorrow) Kathryn Andersen -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <http://www.katspace.com> / \ | \_.--.*/ | GenFicCrit mailing list <http://www.katspace.com/gen_fic_crit/> v | ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
