Re: Workspace vs Projects (WAS Re: Forums)

On July 27, 2004 12:14 pm, Helge Hess wrote:

> Well, I'm not against that. I only wonder whether "project type people"
> will then be confused because OGo doesn't support "projects" anymore
> (not too unlikely I guess).

This statement is so confusing but reviewing the following shed some light on 
the above. See;
http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/helge/DocumentAPI/DocStorage/

> What we could do is to use project types (there already is a database
> field for that) to differentiate between workspaces and projects.
> But I'm not sure whether this is worth the effort given that they would
> do exactly the same thing (and the type would just switch the labels).

Personally and from where I sit its purely a terminology factor. In NA the 
terms workspace is more common due to scarcity and specialization of project 
management software of which most automatically assume MS Project and its 
inherent capabilities when you use the word, "project" 

The document storage is therefore confused with project (at least when I read 
this thread) because of the factor presented above. 

The problem with calling it definitely a workspace, more common in NA, is that 
it does not provide sufficient detail of the functionality or capability of 
the document store 

In short I cannot offer a solution as this thread has really confused me and 
started my thinking. However, I believe the cause of the problem is a simple 
as a difference in naming conventions between the EU lands and NA audiences.
Cant really say that adds  much other then the ideal document storage backend 
would be either zope (where you can used the ZODB independently of the rest 
of the zope server) or SVN. 

It then becomes a packaging consideration once the design is overcome. A 
serious element to consider but this would be more consistent with the notion 
of workspace then a simple renaming convention. 

Compelling thoughts that can be dangerouse as they are time consuming:

ZODB: http://www.zope.org/Products/StandaloneZODB
ZODB_addons:Directory Storage: http://dirstorage.sourceforge.net/
			IndexedCatalog: http://async.com.br/projects/IndexedCatalog/


Regards

/ch

> Input is welcome.
>
> Greets,
>    Helge
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