From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2003-01-29T12:07:29+09:00
Subject: Re: proposed RAA update plan.

Hi, Daniel,

Thank you for the summary.  And also thanks to your effort about
creating mockup site.  The site brings forward descussion of site
design and categorization.

> From: "Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 7:41 AM

> I'd like to propose a very simple improvement plan for RAA.  I am 
> confident that everyone would agree to the first 3 at least.

Sure.

> It is ordered in the suggested sequence, puttig what I think is easiest 
> first (steps 1 and 3 are from Mark's email):
> 
> 1) Move the search to the top of the page.
> 
> 2) Turn the "What's new" section into a right tab, as depiced in the 
>    mock-up
> 
> 3) Combine redundant subcategories:
> 
>  In Application:
> 
>     devel, Devel, Development, development => Development   
>     MIdi, midi          => MIDI
>     util, Util, Utility => Utility
> 
>  In Library:
> 
>     devel, Development         => Development
>     graphics, Graphics         => Graphics
>     Regex, Regular Expressions => Regular Expressions

1-3, in this weekend.

> 4)  Purchase the 'rubyarchive.org' domain and assign the 
>     libs, apps, docs, and info subdomains as I suggested in
>     my previous email.
> 
>     www.rubyarchive.org can be a "splash" site linking to
>     the other subdomains, as Dwayne suggested.

For now, I think raa.ruby-lang.org is enough for main repository.
But I'll be happy when someone replicate RAA metadata to
libs.rubyarchive.org and serve his/her RAA.succ at there.  I built
RAA external interfaces(SOAP, XML-RPC, plain XML, RSS/0.9 and YAML)
for that purpose.
(It's my opiniion.  Matz and usa might have different thought.)

> 5)  In the mid-level listings  -- for example:
> 
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/cat.rhtml?category_major=Library
> 
>     Remove the last column and use the space for having two columns
>     of links.  Like so:
> 
>     AI         6 projects   |  Hardware   4 projects
>     Algorithm  3 projects   |  HTML      14 projects
>     Array      1 project    |  I18N      10 projects
>     ...                     |  ...

I'll try and review it.

> 6)  In the lowest-level listings  -- for example:
> 
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/cat.rhtml?category_major=Library;category_minor=Algorithm
> 
>   1.- Delete the version number, date and file name (e.g. diff.rb).
>       Those are available at the individual project sections like:
>       http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=diff

File name is from its 'Short description'.  No need?

>   2.- Replace the state (alpha/beta/stable) by icons
>       (bronze coin/silver coin/ruby) respectively.

Do you mean 'Status' field?  It's free text field now...
Owner should select its status from predefined candidates?

Regards,
// NaHi