[wp-hackers] [GSoC] Document Management

[Aaron Jorbin]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
> So my concern with his proposal was that it would be incredibly valuable, probably the best I've seen, but only if done right.  If done without a good understanding of use-cases then it could be done poorly and then my fear would be it could become used widely (like NextGen is) but do a poor job of addressing important use cases and thus act like a blocker for those use-cases (again, like NextGen, although NextGen could easily fix the problems I've seen that it has.)  Frankly, I have clients who want some of the exact things his proposal specified.

As far as I know, NextGen wasn't built and designed with feedback from
core community members, so it's kind of comparing apples to pears.
I'm sure the mentors will make sure that this is as flexible as
possible so that you and others can adopt it to specific use cases.


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> On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:51 PM, Jane Wells wrote:
>> Mike - These are student projects, intended as learning and mentorship opportunites within the open source project. The majority don't wind up in core or being what they were imagined to be during the application phase. Let's not attempt to put the same burden you would place on someone applying for a contract development job on the teenage and early-20s students who make up the majority of GSoC applicants. The project mentors are the ones providing the real-world experience as they work with the students during the warm-up period to revise scope as needed. That's kind of the whole point of pairing up students and mentors in GSoC.
>
> But this projects have a significant opportunity cost, and if one fails to gain traction after implements it keeps one that could have been a  huge success from happening
>
> So my concern with his proposal was that it would be incredibly valuable, probably the best I've seen, but only if done right.  If done without a good understanding of use-cases then it could be done poorly and then my fear would be it could become used widely (like NextGen is) but do a poor job of addressing important use cases and thus act like a blocker for those use-cases (again, like NextGen, although NextGen could easily fix the problems I've seen that it has.)  Frankly, I have clients who want some of the exact things his proposal specified.
>
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>> Ben - I love the doc management idea. Check out the EditFlow plugin for one approach to workflow management. Yes, you will likely need to focus on a subset of the functionality you mentioned giving the timing of the term, but that is certainly doable.
>
> Exactly.
>
> -Mike
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