Re: [dita-fa-edboard] RE: Categories on DITA XML.org

[Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@oasis-open.org>]

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 05:35, Bruce Esrig wrote:
> Wow, that maintenance strategy  (in Su-Laine's message "Removing the book
> hierarchy on DITA Wiki   pages") seems promising.
>
> 1. Looking at the site, there are a lot of improvements. Kudos for that.
>
> 2. How do I tag an iterm? Honestly, I looked for it and couldn't find it.
>
> 3. I took a look in the taxonomy manager and I see multiple vocabularies.
>
> In building the tagging vocabulary, would it make sense to echo the other
> vocabularies by embedding them and their constituent terms in hierarchical
> categories in the tagging vocabulary? (I haven't learned yet how to nest
> categories ... ref: http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/taxonomy
> .)
>
> Would it be smart to merge the other vocabularies in completely and
> eliminate them as separate vocabularies?
>
> 4. I tried the usergroups tag, and didn't notice the "Read more" link.
> Could we put "More ..." at the end of the article, or make "Read more" more
> prominent in some other way? Even changing the text to "More ..." might
> help, since that's a common idiom.
>
> 5. The top few SEO items ("Cool site stats") suggest good tags: training,
> ant, cms, editor, opentoolkit, tutorial, tools, OASIS.
>
> 6. Are we going with run-together words? I don't want to alienate people by
> getting too didactic, but we could start a lower camelCase spelling
> convention if we wanted to.
>
> Bruce
>
> At 03:20 PM 10/24/2007, Carol Geyer wrote:
> >Su-Laine,
> >Just to be clear, do you want me to change the 'Categories' link in the
> >vertical nav to read 'Tags' instead?

fwiw, I believe the trend at Drupal is to use the term 'Category' in place of 
taxonomy... to the point where everything but the module name is being called 
Category.  There is a big usability focus [1] with the new release of Drupal 
6 in beta2 [2].  One item that has hampered Drupal is the confusing albeit 
accurate terminology (e.g. taxonomy, node). [3]  Although 'tag' is very 
popular term, it doesn't convey the sense that there might be some structure 
to the classification.

[1] http://drupal.org/node/141043
[2] http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0-beta2
[3] http://drupal.org/node/141043#comment-229190

One thing that is changing in D6 is that the book module has been reworked to 
make it more flexible.
<quote>
Book and Forum changes
    The book module and forum module have been reworked from the ground up: it 
is now possible to have any type of content in forums (polls for example) and 
the book administration is simplified.
</quote>

Here is what's in D6 so far, from the Changelog:
// $Id: CHANGELOG.txt,v 1.230 2007/10/25 15:28:28 dries Exp $

Drupal 6.0, xxxx-xx-xx (development version)
----------------------
- New, faster and better menu system.
- New watchdog as a hook functionality.
   * New hook_watchdog that can be implemented by any module to route log
     messages to various destinations.
   * Expands the severity levels from 3 (Error, Warning, Notice) to the 8
     levels defined in RFC 3164.
   * The watchdog module is now called dblog, and is optional, but enabled by
     default in the default install profile.
   * Extended the database log module so log messages can be filtered.
   * Added syslog module: useful for monitoring large Drupal installations.
- Added optional e-mail notifications when users are approved, blocked, or
  deleted.
- Added versioning support to categories by associating them with node
  revisions.
- Drupal works with error reporting set to E_ALL.
- Added scripts/drupal.sh to execute Drupal code from the command line. Useful
  to use Drupal as a framework to build command-line tools.
- Made signature support optional and made it possible to theme signatures.
- Made it possible to filter the URL aliases on the URL alias administration
  screen.
- Language system improvements:
    * Support for right to left languages.
    * Language detection based on parts of the URL.
    * Browser based language detection.
    * Made it possible to specify a node's language.
    * Support for translating posts on the site to different languages.
    * Language dependent path aliases.
    * Automatically import translations when adding a new language.
    * JavaScript interface translation.
    * Automatically import a module's translation upon enabling that module.
- Moved "PHP input filter" to a standalone module so it can be deleted for
  security reasons.
- Usability:
    * Improved handling of teasers in posts.
    * Added sticky table headers.
    * Check for clean URL support automatically with JavaScript.
    * Removed default/settings.php. Instead the installer will create it from
      default.settings.php.
    * Made it possible to configure your own date formats.
    * Remember anonymous comment posters.
    * Only allow modules and themes to be enabled that have explicitly been
      ported to the correct core API version.
    * Can now specify the minimum PHP version required for a module within the
      .info file.
    * Dynamically check password strength and confirmation.
    * Refactored poll administration.
- Theme system:
    * Added .info files to themes and made it easier to specify regions and
      features.
    * Added theme registry: modules can directly provide .tpl.php files for
      their themes without having to create theme_ functions.
    * Used the Garland theme for the installation and maintenance pages.
    * Added theme preprocess functions for themes that are templates.
    * Added support for themeable functions in JavaScript.
- Refactored update.php to a generic batch API to be able to run 
time-consuming
  operations in multiple subsequent HTTP requests.
- Installer:
    * Themed the installer with the Garland theme.
    * Added form to provide initial site information during installation.
    * Added ability to provide extra installation steps programmatically.
    * Made it possible to import interface translations at install time.
- Added the HTML corrector filter:
    * Fixes faulty and chopped off HTML in postings.
    * Tags are now automatically closed at the end of the teaser.
- Performance:
    * Made it easier to conditionally load .include files and split up many 
core
      modules.
    * Added a JavaScript aggregator and compressor.
    * Added block-level caching, improving performance for both authenticated
      and anonymous users.
    * Made Drupal work correctly when running behind a reverse proxy like
      Squid or Pound.
- File handling improvements:
    * Entries in the files table are now keyed to a user instead of a node.
    * Added reusable validation functions to check for uploaded file sizes,
      extensions, and image resolution.
    * Added ability to create and remove temporary files during a cron job.
- Forum improvements:
    * Any node type may now be posted in a forum.
- Added support for OpenID.
- Added support for triggering configurable actions.
- Added the Update status module to automatically check for available updates
  and warn sites if they are missing security updates or newer versions.
- Upgraded the core JavaScript library to jQuery version 1.2.
- Added a new Schema API, which provides built-in support for core and
  contributed modules to work with databases other than MySQL.
- Removed drupal.module. The functionality lives on as the Site network
  contributed module (http://drupal.org/project/site_network).

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