From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2001-05-02T14:00:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14531] Re: RAA



"Hal E. Fulton" wrote:
> ...
> > Now don't get me wrong, its great to have the RAA and the links and the
> > organization.  What is a bit worrisome is that websites have a tendancy to
> > go down (especially personal ones) and pages (and even ISPs) have a
> > tendency to disappear. Would it be better to move toward a central archive
> with
> > mirrors like CPAN is for Perl?  That way we could be sure that all of
> > our Ruby applications and modules are available in a central place and
> > that central place would be mirrored for safety sake.
> >
> > I just wanted to throw this out for discussion...
> >
> 
> I agree, Phil... what is more, I would like to see the RAA (eventually)
> revamped. (I'm looking toward the future when I say that.)
> 
> I'll make these two constraints first:
> 1. It needs to be easily searchable. If there is a form, the defaults should
> be
> chosen so that "most" of the time, they're what most people want.
> 2. It needs to be easily add/updated. I favor a web form updating a
> database with a reasonably rich set of fields (with good defaults).
> 
> Now, I would also like to see *powerful* functionality. Exclude things over
> a
> year old. Show me only things updated in the last month. Show only things
> with English docs. Let me search the synopses by keyword. And so on...
> 

Thanks, Hal, for your feature request. :-)

I would also like to see something that sort of extends the site_ruby
directory, and I have even gone so far as to get the site-ruby.com/net/org
domain name for this purpose.

Having something searchable via the web is only one aspect, of course.
I think with more feedback and requests for features, a better design
can be formed sooner. 

Any other specific feature requests for this? 


Guy N. Hurst

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