[Scilab-Dev] ATOMS categories

[Pierre MARECHAL]

Hello,

Samuel Gougeon wrote :
> Hello,
>
> Beside the compilation chain, one of the great new features
> of the new online toolboxes management system ATOMS is the ability
> to tag each toolbox with more than one category (see the "New toolbox"
> interface), and to use subcategories.
> However, they are a number of things that, IMO, would be worthwhile
> to tune for initializing the system before it gets crowdy. I would
> like to discuss them here, before any possible bug/request report. 

ATOMS portal is not totally completed  :
- lack of documentation
- Category list not totally established
- Some ergonomic points
...
We are aware of it.

But obviously, a discussion about categories can't be useless

> First, the "New toolbox" interface allows /any user/ to create a
> new category or sub-category. This feature sounds very hasardous.
> IMO, it should be a webmaster privilege, 
Totally agree with you. Actually, we have already planned to disable 
this feature.
> after discusion of categories
> here on users@ and with internal Consortium agreement.
> One may fear that indexation of modules in categories turns
> quite quickly messy ; because it would then be complicated to
> correct it afterwards,
No panic Samuel  :-) :

 - A module can belongs to several categories
 - A module can be moved from a category to another
 - Categories can be renamed, moved or deleted

... without any consequence on the Atoms client

fortunately !

> we should avoid this situation without waiting.
> A messy tool is no tool, so ignoring past efforts of everyone
> for keeping clear categories.

> Moereover, i do not feel really convinced by the new list of 17
> defined categories and 9 subcategories
> (see list on page http://atoms.scilab.org/.
> Former page: 
> http://www.scilab.org/contrib/index_contrib.php?page=download)
> An alternative is proposed herebelow. Leading numbers are references
> for the following discussion. 

Don't forget :
 - The description of each categories
 - The priority : The alphabetic order is not always the best choice.


Pierre

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