On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 12:09 -0400, Sean Corbett wrote: > > I just posted this on libreplanet - it outlines in a more specific way > > how I think GNU Social nodes should be built. > > > > <http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/User:Teddks/Social> > > > I definitely agree with the high level design presented in this > document. This is basically what Ian and I envisioned when we've sat > around, shooting the shit and thinking about how we'd implement GNU > Social. I especially like the idea of UI transports; the use of core > transports and UI transports solve many of the disagreements on > implementation that constitute much of the mailing list's activity over > the past few months. Thanks for writing this document out; it's good to > see a clear, solid idea of how the node should be designed. A lack of a > document like this (and a starting-off point from which to get some code > written) was why we had the meeting last Wednesday in the first place. > You're quite welcome. :-)
> Speaking of the meeting, I'm sorry there wasn't nearly enough "coverage" > as there probably should have been. I'm also sorry if we gave the > impression of trying to form some elitist group of developers near > Boston who would make decisions for the whole community. All I really > wanted was some clarity as to where to start with the project, because I > saw the list starting to stagnate and I felt like I should do > *something.* I agree that in the future, meetings should take place > through IRC, especially given the amount of hackers that aren't even in > the U.S. > I might have been too harsh in my calling-out of the closed nature of that meeting; it hit a nerve I've been feeling quite acutely since reading *The Tyranny of Structurelessness* (<http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/structurelessness.html>), which describes in detail the danger of this sort of thing. The great reaction from those involved has mitigated any fears I had, though. :-)
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