From: Jack Dempsey <dempsejn@...>
Date: 2002-01-16T09:49:31+09:00
Subject: RE: ROSA (pre-announcement)

Ahh, very good suggestion...I like the author ranking a lot, will certainly
help...
as far as searching, a search feature is in my minds a
requirement....probably one of the last features to be included though in
the final application....

thanks!
Jack

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lafor [mailto:lafor@arrakis.es]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 2:59 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: ROSA (pre-announcement)
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> First of all I think is a nice initiative.
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> > I haven't implemented much functionality, as I want to write this in
> > Ruby, and currently only have access to PHP, so please bear with the
> > limited nature of the look and design of the site. It's basically there
> > to try and kickstart this idea into reality. Feedback on the concept and
> > ideas would be best as the form will surely change.
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> I suppose you have a database in the backoffice to support this
> application. Then, are you thinking in a small search engine? Otherwise
> this will be not very useful (when it were 100 entries in each category
> it would be slow and tired to find the right snippet)
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> A feature suggestion: in addition to the voting/ranking of snippets, you
> can do the same with authors. This way, if the snippet is not
> understandable by the rose's user, he can rely on the high-ranked
> authors. You can even cross-reference the authors with the Raa database
> to allow the user check if the author has written any interesting stuff
> (increasing the reliability)
>
> best regards,
> __
> Juli�n
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