On Wed, Jul 30, 2014, Michael Fuerst via Callers wrote: > > Actually a global contra dance database seems like a bad idea. Who > will decide what dances merit placement in the database? A much > better idea is for CDSS to maintain a web page with either copies of > web page(s) with authors' dances, somewhat like Cary Ravitz now does: > http://ravitz.us/caller/ It would be best for CDSS to keep a copy of > each composer's dances, so to preserve them when the author dies.
Overall, this makes sense; however, remember that Maia is partly doing this for programming practice. There's an old programmer saying: "Rough consensus and running code," which means that working code trumps most other considerations. I think your proposal runs the risk of having nothing because people will spend time talking and talking and talking and talking about it; if Maia's project pans out, she could (should!) be encouraged to turn it over to CDSS to run and maintain it. > Anyone could submit page(s) of dances, and CDSS would make no > judgement as to the quality of the dances. One might want to set up a > mechanism so an author can edit the pages with her/his dances Visitors > could then peruse any author's dances, and initiate discussion about > specific dances on a forum similar to this one. The design discussion for these features is in many ways completely different from the basic database design discussion, with all kinds of security/privacy issues. They can be tacked on by competent programmers more-or-less independently of the underlying database. I strongly recommend skipping it for now. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net
