On 30 Dec 2008, at 00:21, Noah Slater wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:47:23AM +1030, Antony Blakey wrote:
On 30/12/2008, at 4:11 AM, Dean Landolt wrote:
Of course, given the lore around here that Damien has this thing
designed in his head all the way through 2.0, I think it's a safe
bet
metadata would remain fairly stable for some time to come.
I don't thing that's very good reasoning.
What about version 3, 4, ... etc? Why not design it to be stable and
extensible *by design*, rather than attributing god-like predictive
powers to someone.
I can see it from both angles, of course we should be discussing
things on
technical merit and not some fluffy concept of who's better at
predicting
things. On the other hand, Damien has a significant head-start on us
all with
CouchDB and Lotus Notes before it, so if I was going to trust
anyone's intuition
it would be his.
+1.
—
Damien's reasoning is not inconsistent, it just includes one newbie-WTF.
While I'm still for changing it, if it doesn't happen, we just need to
make sure
TO DOCUMENT THE HELL OUT OF IT.
I got shot down with this proposals three times now — I give up :)
Cheers
Jan
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