[wp-hackers] New plugin: Groups - looking for feedback

[Karim "Kento" Rahimpur]

woops: " ... people you work ... " should have read " ... people who work
... "

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Karim "Kento" Rahimpur
<itthinx at gmail.com>wrote:

> I surely appreciate your thoughts on this.
>
> While there are certainly many ways to achieve something, these differ in
> the means that are used. In this case, they differ especially in the
> fundamental principles that are employed.
>
> If anyone wants to build a similar system as Groups and base it on
> WordPress' taxonomies, they are of course free to do so. As far as Groups
> itself is concerned, it's based on well-known and accepted design
> principles in Software Engineering and thus its underlying data model and
> the resulting number of tables isn't going to change based on any
> preference regarding the number of tables deployed. Why would someone want
> to judge a plugin by the "number of tables" it creates? Systems use
> hundreds of tables because it's a result of a thorough and sound design,
> people you work with large-scale ERP or CRM systems see the need for it
> very clearly. Those who appreciate its design may find it very comfortable
> to work and develop with Groups, those who do not, should have no need to
> feel forced to use it and can use any of the alternatives that are around.
>
> Again, although I appreciate your opinions, Groups' design will not be
> based on taxonomies. It's far beyond the stage of discussing the "how to
> build Groups" and it's time to talk about "what do you want to do with it"
> - of course, only if you want to do something with it.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:11 AM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Karim "Kento" Rahimpur
>> <itthinx at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > In a manner similar to how groups and roles differ in real-world
>> semantics.
>> > Groups represent sets of individuals while roles stand for sets of
>> > characteristics (e.g. capabilities) that can be attributed to
>> individuals.
>> >
>>
>> Ok, so basically you re-implemented taxonomies for users, except for each
>> group (or term in a taxonomy) you can also assign certain capabilites.
>>
>> As Mike said, you shouldn't need 5 custom tables for this.
>>
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