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[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

John Schinnerer writes:
 > Hi Chad and all,
 > 
 >  > Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org> added the comment:
 >  >
 >  > I'm changing the severity to minor and the type to task.  This seems 
 > more like a feature request to me,
 >  > and not a super important one IMO.
 > 
 > (Above refers to Issue 14)
 > 
 > I entered it as I did because I think it is very basic UI functionality, 
 > and essential to a user dealing with potentially dozens and dozens of 
 > pages of results.
 > 
 > I myself have barely played with PIW searches, beyond looking at the 
 > first page or two, due to lack of this very functionality.

IMO, if you don't find it on the first page, we have a problem with
the search engine... not a display problem.  If I can't get something
good out of google in the first page (100 items), I usually rework my
seach expression before going to the next page.

 > I would still prefer we have an actual func spec that lays out 
 > intended/desired functionality and priorities/milestones for 
 > implementing same.
 > 
 > Absent that, bugs or tasks that imply func specs can be entered ad hoc 
 > in the bug DB, though IMO that is a poor way to organize our time and 
 > resources and a poor way to design software.
 > 
 > And, this exposes the main problems with an essentially unmanaged project.
 > 
 > Anyone who doesn't like what someone else puts in the DB can just change 
 > it to suit themselves, as you have done with this bug.
 > 
 > And of course I can just change it back, and then we have a useless 
 > pissing contenst.
 > 
 > So I propose that we need to decide sooner rather than later how we can 
 > better deal with our lack of any formal fucntional/design specs and our 
 > lack of any formal project management.

I'm ok with implementing what[ever] folks what, I was nitpicking over
whether it was a bug or not.

 > Here's my brief on how it generally works places I've worked:
 >
 > <snip>

That said, this *bug*/*feature* is trivially easy to implement, so
expect it soon.


-- 
Chad Knepp
python -c 'import base64;print base64.decodestring("cHlnQGdhbGF0ZWEub3Jn")'