From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
> Jack Park writes:
> >
> > The welchco site is a rather detailed personal journal. An early
> > question derived from this observation is this: do we want
> > to capture personal journals in the DKR?
> >
> There isn't any harm in doing so, but I'm not sure how valuable it
> is, either. In my "firewalled" section of the requirements, I address
> the need for private vs. public DKRs. You "publish" from the private DKR
> by putting into the public version, I think. That implies a way to keep
> track of *which* public DKRs it has gone into, so that only
> version-differences are sent when publishing subsequently.
>
> Along those lines, an email forum is a "diary" of interactions. The
> reduction step consists of abstracting the thoughts they contain,
> effectively replacing them in a subsequent version of the document.
>
> The diary system at Rod's site is difficult to follow because (given the
> technology available at the time) everything is done with links. What
> you want, though, is for much of the material to be "inline" instead of
> linked. When you publish a "reduced" version, the material that was
> originally inline becomes relegated to a link -- a link which is
> identified as something that points to "supporting information" or
> "original arguments" or the like, so you know you don't want to follow
> it unless you are particulary interested in deeper information.
>
> Where things get messy is when I do one reduction and you do another.
> We now have competing versions of the summary. The original discussion
> now has a higher-level fork, where my document points to the original
> version, and your document points to the original version, but both of
> these are under some *other* node -- where they may themselves be
> summarized, or where evaluations by different folks may lead to one of
> them being chosen as the "better" reformulation of the issues.
>
> Understanding what happens at such times is one of the things we need to
> tackle in the use-case analysis.
>
So, would now be a good time to begin laying out use cases that cover these
issues?
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