On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, tiddlygrp wrote:
I thing the most important are the definition of uuid fields and their semantics and working together with tw, including the ability to track changes and the history of where the tiddler came from. I think this is non trivial.
Can you give a few more details on what the communication protocol would be accomplishing? I acknowledge that it would be cool to do, in the abstract, but knowing some more concrete reasons for having it will help to understand the structuring that we need to do. I ask because earlier this year I was getting quite keen on federation in general, and federated social web protocols, but over time I've come to wonder about the extent to which they are really necessary above straight up HTTP and hypertextual links. In the FSW world, federation has come to mean distributing copies of stuff all over the place. I think this is entirely regressive and counter-productive on an open and public web. We don't want copies of content, we want more links (with links that actually work), and more servers. Ward's information makes it pretty clear that part of the goal in his stuff is a collaborative workflow. Is this the sort of things you are thinking about? In that context, how important is tracking changes and history compared to the content itself. I've been working on collaborative content systems for a long time now and one of my observations is that strict content tracking is far more important in code than it is in narrative. And not only that, because of the structure of code, tracking the changes is far _easier_. Given that I keep finding myself coming back to a situation where if the content is fairly unstructured human communication what we need is just accessibility. In a tiddler context that means URIs for individual tiddlers with good capacity to link. Can you provide a use case or user story that fleshes out the need for what you describe above? I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm sure it does, I would just like to understand it more clearly. -- Chris Dent http://burningchrome.com/ [...] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" 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/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
