Re: [Chategory-devl] Versioning: Chategory 2.0, 3.0

[Jonathan F. <jo...@sl...>]

Good thinking, Bob. I think that's the best choice. Perhaps group 
like-options, though? That is,

  Archive [Never, Monthly, Weekly, Daily]
  Cleanout [Never, Monthly, Weekly, Daily]

What do you think? Overkill? I know it's not best practice to give too 
many options (according to our good usability friends, the 37 Signals), 
but I think that this is an important flexibility feature, so it's okay 
to make an exception.

Bob F wrote:
> Well, I'll tell you right now that I don't like every X posts, because  
> then on each submission we'd have to count, and write and read. Lot of 
> extra processing. If we give the admin an option,  I'm in favor of also 
> having an option of cleaning things out.
> 
> Think about it, if this is say used on a heavily traffic-ed website, 
> they may not want to store megabytes of conversations. So maybe,
> 
> Archive Monthly
> Archive Weekly
> Archive Daily
> Cleanout Monthly
> Cleanout Weekly
> Cleanout Daily
> 
> All as choices.
> 
> On 9/9/05, *Jonathan Fenocchi* < jo...@sl... 
> <mailto:jo...@sl...>> wrote:
> 
>     Do we archive? Yes. Does the admin have to press a button? No. When are
>     archives created? Well, we can give the admin a few choices -- monthly,
>     weekly, daily, or we can let him say after X messages. Actually, I
>     think
>     "after X messages" wouldn't be a good idea, since you could have a lot
>     of conversation in five minutes and it may archive automatically at that
>     time. On the other hand, every month might not be a good idea, either,
>     since someone could be having a conversation at the end of the month,
>     and suddenly have no messages... Hmm... Thoughts on that?
> 
>     Still, I think the best option would be to give the admin a dropdown:
>     "Store archives every: [month, week, day]"
> 
>     Bob F wrote:
>>  Cool, we got that hashed out.
>>
>>  Now, I've got another for discussion, that we've yet to think out
>>  entirely. Archiving. There are obviously problems with working with
>>  humungous files. Jona suggests archiving, but how should this be
>     done?
>>  On a daily/weekly/monthly basis? After X amount of posts? Does it
>>  require a mod or admin to press a button? Or do we not archive?
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