> My first choice would be to allow, even encourage, the group who does want > to maintain and extend nested set functionality for Rails to add their > improvements to the official rails nested set plugin. That would be the > easiest way for anyone needing that sort of fundamental data > structure/modeling support to find a community consensus solution to the > problem.
Part of the problem is that the current members of the core team simply don't use nested_set enough to make good decisions about what patches should and shouldn't be applied. This same problem applies to picking maintainers for the successor-plugin. I think we're better off with alternative plugins gaining organic acceptance rather than having us make some arbitrary decision to bless a given plugin, even though we don't use it. If it becomes 'obvious' to everyone concerned that there's a single better option, then we can reference it. Sometimes plugins become obvious like this (will_paginate), other times they're far from clear (all the i18n/l10n plugins). > If that is too fraught, then nominating a successor (better nested set? it > is what I use and have been fairly happy with) in the nested set README > would be a decent second choice. What I would not like to see happen is the > standard scenario where there are 10 plugins for doing XXX, but everyone > uses Y - or used to. The new cool tool is Z but you have to have been > hanging out listening to the discussion of XXX for you to know that the wind > is blowing towards Z (and that you should ignore Y as 'good in its day' but > on it's way out). > > -- > Cynthia Kiser > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- Cheers Koz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
