Re: [Comp-hist-devel] 1.0

[Hans B P. <ha...@di...>]

Christophe Fergeau wrote:
 
> I think we are not ready to release 1.0 We've got a lot of data about a lot
> of different OSes and computers and ... but we don't have any convenient
> means to display it. We've got our parsers to graphvidz and vcg but we've
> got far too much information to display so it is not usable. As I already
> wrote, we've got to sort all the data we've got with respect to its
> importance if we want to simplify the display.

I completely agree, we need to sort out the data and provide a better
display facility, based on html/xml.

I would also repeat a suggestion I made some time ago - a facility for
anyone to be able to provide input simply. I see this as being an edit
link on each displayed node, a form pops up with that node's data and
the user can edit/add information. When the form is submitted, it is
saved in an edit file which is immediatley visible to subsequent users
but allows us to moderate what goes into the definitive database.

The problem I see at this point is that in order for anyone to provide
real input they need to download, make and manually search the database,
many very knowledgable folks with valuable input will not be willing to
do that.

> We'll also have to write a visualization library which suits our needs (and
> maybe we'll use our c parser which currently is not really useful). Indeed,
> with all the data we've got, we should provide an easy way to visualise it
> and to browse through it. If we decide to write a visualization library, I'm
> not sure whether we should integrate it in 1.0 or not. We also have to find
> what is the most appropriate means of displaying our database.

Take a look at the CCC search page for a simple way of
searching/displaying.

> Summary : we should wait to release 1.0 because we've got a lot of
> information but nearly nothing to use it easily

I agree, quite a bit more work before we can really say it's 1.0

 -- Hans