On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Sure. But why bother?
Well, you already get 90% of that for free in MM3 already, except it's only exposed in the test suite. Launchpad has similar functionality and for developers, it's very useful. It's probably not useful to the major of deployments, so it shouldn't be a prominent option, but it could be an option nonetheless.
IMO a much more useful approach would be a simple way to clone a list in every way but the membership list and the name.
There are two aspects to "cloning". MM3 already has a style management facility, which allows for defining a set of defaults that can be applied to a list when it's created, or even afterward. But those are choices of system defined options. What's not currently available is the ability to copy user supplied information from one list to another. That might be an interesting addition.
BTW, I think that MM developers is the wrong place for this discussion, as clearly there's a major difference of consciousness between me and Mark on the one hand and LuKreme on the other. That's not a situation where we can take a well-understood requirement to MMD and bang out a spec. If something needs to be done here, we need to get "real users'" opinions of what needs doing, I think.
I agree it's important to gather user requirements, but this particular discussion seems to center on new features, so it definitely crosses over to developers.
-Barry
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