[pmwiki-users] Re: purpose-oriented Perfection

[V.Krishn]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 00:47, you wrote:
> was: Re: Re: Perfection and Menus
>
> At 10:52 AM 3/13/2005, V.Krishn wrote:
> >Further sub-division of this group may be possible: like "Core-Suggested
> >Cookbook", "Core-Recommended Cookbook", "Core-Essential Cookbook".
> >...just to begin with :)
>
> Neat! This is indeed a great idea, along the lines of introducing recipes
> gradually rather than hitting newbies over the head with a large cookbook
> straight after the rather short Initial Tasks.
Some suggestios that could be a YardScale:
"Core-Suggested Cookbook" => Decided upon, 
1. the number of Votes 
     -- if the cookbook was requested in PITS. 
     -- Sane dicussions in some cookbook page.
     -- Mailing list - eg. request of div tag.
2. Its Importance with respect to number of Bundles it spans. Eg. Most of the 
users while installing it as Bundles CMS/Blog, or PmWiki as bare would like 
to install receipe "Blocklist", "Blacklist", "Commentbox". 
....Then this becomes a Suggested cookbook.

"Core-Recommended Cookbook" => Decided upon,
1. Its Importance with respect to number of Bundles it spans. 
2. The simplicity of code. Example how good it integrates with PmWiki in 
general and with other Cookbooks (must). Because if it clashes with other 
cookbooks it can never be a CORE, rather a normal cookbook receipe.

"Core-Essential Cookbook" => ~~phew~~
1. The simplicity of code.
2. Whether the code requires (can only be achieved by) modification of some 
core code. Which means some functions already defined in core code is 
redefined in the receipe to get a new function.
3. Such modification would/can be used in all suggested bundles. 
....THEN this receipe can gradually (of course weight of administrators may be 
counted) be promoted inside CORE distro.
Eg. (i) In Beta26 - Added edit page templates (PITS:00113, requested by many 
administrators). :)))
(ii) Page History does not have radio buttons to choose which history. Like in 
other popular wikis. I have to wait couple of seconds or hit stop to see just 
the last history :( . Load of full history by default is waste of bandwidth 
and server resource. Do more than 10% of users need this full history?? ..... 
to begin with. :)

V.Krishn 
>
> However, there's a problem: WHO does the suggestion / recommendation? I
> s'pose we may have one or several MCs, who could discuss (shortly!!) the
> integration of various recipes, as per
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ListOfBundles
>
>
> Cheers,
> Radu
> (www.monicsoft.net)