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["Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

Arwed von Merkatz wrote :

> Hi everyone.
> 
> After thinking about the proposed grimoire layout changes for a while and a
> recent discussion on irc I'm proposing something completely different :)
> 
> Whatever section naming scheme we come up with, it will suck for some
> ways to look for spells. Currently sections actually define two things: 1) a
> broad category, 2) the maintainer. This doesn't really work out. Spells 
> should
> be maintained by people who use them, and who uses _all_ possible mail
> daemons we have in the mail section? We should decide what we want our
> sections to define, either a category _or_ the maintainer. What I'm
> proposing now is to make the sections define only the maintainer,
> together with some changes to sorcery and spells to support that.
> 
> We add a new KEYWORDS variable to DETAILS that contains all the keywords
> that apply to this spell. There will be an official list of keywords that
> spells can use, no spell should use any other keyword.
> 
> scribe reindex extracts all the KEYWORDS from all spells and generates an
> index file for them for fast keyword searching.
> 
> gaze gets some new commands:
> gaze list-keywords                    -- shows all available keywords
> gaze keyword <any number of keywords> -- shows all spells that have all 
> those
>                                          keywords in their DETAILS
> This essentially replaces gaze section. Together with gaze search it will 
> be a
> comfortable way to look for spells in the grimoire. Keywords will include 
> stuff
> like the environment(s) the spell can use, the genre of the spell, whether 
> it
> provides a server, ...
> Some examples for keyword searches:
> gaze keyword kde mail client
> gaze keyword audio plugin
> gaze keyword compiler
> ....
> 
> The keywords replace the categorizing sections we have right now.
> Sections are just a way to relate spells to maintainers, so we would have
> sections like eric_sandall, arwed_von_merkatz, ... and a section 
> unmaintained.
> Whenever someone decides to maintain a spell from unmaintained he moves it 
> to
> his section.
> This opens up the possiblity of people maintaining a very small set of 
> spells
> they care about, which would make it less intimidating for new people to
> become maintainers.
> 
> The one drawback I see with this solution is that we lose the option to 
> browse
> the grimoire easily with the shell/filemanagers, but a fast keyword search
> makes up for that.
> For other ways to browse the grimoire like the online spell listing it 
> wouldn't
> be hard to create that list categorised by keywords, or even with any 
> arbitrary
> hierarchy of keywords. For people really wanting a layout on the filesystem
> they can browse with the shell it would also be possible to provide a script
> that creates a symlink tree that points to the spells in the grimoire but is
> divided into directories by keywords.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> --
> Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux 
> developer
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> 

I love the idea.... love it love it love it... would really want something 
like that

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