From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2003-01-27T08:25:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?

On Sunday 26 January 2003 03:49 pm, Mark Wilson wrote:
> Finally, this discussion is not taking place in a vacuum.  We have the
> RAA.  There are four top-level categories.  There are a multitude of
> second-level categories (86 in Library, 69 in Application).

i want to make a distinction here over the word category. these are 
hiearchical categories you refer too, also known as a Tree.

i beleive it would be an improvement to allow for a Graph. that is to say, an 
RAA entry can belong to multiple categories.

since it seems searching is the most common means of finding a package, and 
will increasingly become so as the RAA increases in size, then perhaps the 
search functionailty should be placed at the top of the page.

also, note, that mutiple categorization will facilitate seach queries better.

-- 
tom sawyer, aka transami
transami@transami.net