On 9 June 2014 02:30, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:22 AM, James Forrester <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Sunday, June 8, 2014, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Martijn Hoekstra < > > > [email protected] <javascript:;>> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Flow stores the comments as a structured tree > > > > > > That seems a fundamental mistake. A discussion isn't a tree, it's a dag > > > at best. It's possible for a single comment in a discussion to refer to > > > zero or more earlier comments, > > > > Flow stores each discussion as a tree, with a Flow "Board" being a forest > > of discussions for precisely this reason. > > That takes care of the issues of replying to one comment (a new node in an > existing tree), zero comments (a new root node), but not multiple comments > (which would break the tree).
Really? Hello | +- Hey! | +-+- Wow! | | | +-+- I know! | | | +-+- I'm here too! | | | | | +- It's wonderful! | | | +-+- Crazy, right? | +- Yeah. … J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
