[Alexandria-list] New design phase

[Jason Polak]

I'm a user of Alexandria and subscriber and I like the wiki idea. I think it's a good idea to have a section describing the way the program works, like the source tree structure, etc. would anyone mind if a section like that were created?

I'm just getting started looking at the Alexandria source and I like to help if I can get my head around it all. I'm an amateur Ruby programmer (started the language this summer) and I'd like to help with Alexandria.

-Jason

On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:47:28 +0000
Cathal Mc Ginley <cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org> wrote:

> I'd like to kick-off this "new design phase" I've been talking about
> since the first 0.6.2 betas. Joseph Method has set up a lot of the new
> design support architecture I was considering:
> 
>  * A wiki at http://wiki.alexandria-projects.org/wiki/Alexandria
>  * A 'Planet' aggregator at http://planet.alexandria-projects.org/
> which, at the moment, brings together his "Alexandria Project Blog" and
> my own journal "mind can has mountains"!
> 
> I will continue to spend some time working on a 0.6.3 maintenance
> release, touching up a few usabililty problems and genuine snags. (And
> I'd like to thank Lennart at this point for his excellent work in
> finding these issues on the Tracker amongst all the out of date
> reports.) But I'll be concentrating on a core redesign. 
> 
> Users of Alexandria can help by trying to formalize their various
> requirements for a book collection manager directly on the wiki:
> http://www.gnostai.org/journal/2007/12/31/requirements-gathering-on-the-alexandria-wiki/
> Design ideas are also welcome, but don't get bogged down in
> implementation details at this stage.
> 
> Hmmm, that's all for now.
> 
>    -   Cathal.