Oct. 3rd, 2009

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[personal profile] jadelennox and [personal profile] afuna started chatting about what would be desired for the submission of styles for consideration. One of the things under discussion was how people should be notified when someone submitted a style. Email? Support request? Post to [site community profile] dreamscapes? Submit to a back-end area?

I ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wondered if it would be possible to take the [personal profile] suggestions engine and modify it to accept style submissions and post to [site community profile] dreamscapes, private post ready to shove into Bugzilla and all.

Jadelennox mentioned that both the suggestions stuff and this would be very DW-specific. Denise said that the suggestions code was actually very simple: http://hg.dwscoalition.org/dw-nonfree/file/tip/htdocs/site/suggest.bml (and well-commented! jadelennox mentioned; [staff profile] denise put out a plea that if you have to puzzle through old code, please to comment it with the results of your puzzling so the next person will have it easier.)

A small debate ensued over whether style-suggestions should be Dreamwidth-specific or not. On the one hand, other sites might not want to do it that way; on the other hand, Dreamwidth is about openness. Denise was undecided. Jadelennox expressed misgivings about writing nonfree code. [personal profile] afuna proposed a module. I proposed the concept of a "dw-optionalfree", for, as Denise put it: "stuff that we wrote for our site business needs that you *can* use if you want but you'll have to do a lot of customization first", and after further thought, was in favor of a step between "dw-free, plug and play" and "dw-nonfree, closed and you can't use it". something like "hey, this is what we made to serve our business needs, yours might be different".. [personal profile] jadelennox: "ultimately, there's very little code you actually don't WANT to share. But there's a fair amount that is structured around business model."

Denise suspected that [staff profile] mark might be in favor of doing it with hooks instead.

D put out a call for a volunteer to summarize the discussion for [site community profile] dw_dev, and I answered the call first.

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