On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:05 AM, James Forrester <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > Yes, really. > > Hello > | > +- Hey! > | > +-+- Wow! > | | > | +-+- I know! > | | > | +-+- I'm here too! > | | | > | | +- It's wonderful! ---------+ > | | | > | +-+- Crazy, right? | > | | | | Wonderfully crazy!------| > | > +- 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
