On 02/03/2008, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Just for clarification, are we still talking category
intersections?
Or would a separate tagging system, in parallel to categories, be a
better way?
* No messing with the existing category system
* Tagging/untagging without editing (?)
* No need to alter categories (tree) to fit new tagging scheme (flat),
preserving categories and not cluttering tagging with "category
leftovers"
* Selective seeding of tags with categories
* Make (technically) sure tags are always "defined", so multiple
equivalent tags, can use integer IDs internally, etc.
Hopefully something that can replace the category system once the bugs
are shaken out, such that the present microscopically small
sub-sub-sub-sub-categories can be replaced with an intersection of
tags.
That is: the main difference being in the back-end implementation,
because we can't just run frequent queries on the intersection of ten
categories without crippling the database server.
- d.