From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-01-30T09:11:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?


> Good thinking, but it's important not to get ahead of ourselves.  If
> the basic feature was introduced (i.e. developers/administrators can
> assign keywords and users can search for them), then I think 80% of
> the potential will be achieved.
> 
> It's important to keep that in mind because it will take a fair bit of
> effort by our overstreched RAA representatives to get this done, and
> we don't want to complicate the task.

I agree... first things first.

As for interface issues, I think it would be good 
to make the most common keywords into checkboxes
(for purposes of uploading and/or searching). Then
there could be an "other" textfield.

Just a thought.

Hal