Open Source Design Pattern Library group meeting - 08-20-08

OSDPL group meeting - 08-20-08

Paul Zablosky, Jonathan Hung, Daphne Ogle, Allison Bloodworth, Jess Mitchell, and Erin Yu.

Overview of the direction Governance is taking.
Non-technical discussion (implementation, systems, and technology to be discussed at a later phase).
This is all work in progress and open to refinement. Please contribute!

Overview of Phase 2 - Governance
- Discuss governance questions and issues
- Authoring process feedback
Overview of OSDPL Charter
- Charter questions and issues

Should draft patterns be publically viewable?

Public drafts encourages transparency and collaboration.
Should offer an option where author can specify if they want drafts public.
Drafts should be clearly marked.
segregate drafts from polished content by login or a separate content area.
- logging in may not be an approach we would like to take to make the site more usable.

Co-authoring with draft patterns

open pattern drafts allows for others from other backgrounds to lend their perspectives.
technically how can this be accomplished?

Authoring Process

What makes a good design pattern?

answer will evolve (put this in the charter?)
granularity: do we link or include basic DPs?
- what about sub-patterns within DPs (i.e. progress bar in the File Uploader).
Is content on the OSDPL design or a design pattern? We'd like to be a design pattern, so be wary of being too prescriptive.
design patterns are informed by best practices
not too prescriptive - general and not too component specific
But can be specific - useful as examples and illustrations

Ownership

Open Source projects often fork from the original if the changes are significant and original author involvement is not possible.

Concern

communities contributing their own patterns that may not be general.
- "What makes a good design pattern" guideline may help.
- What do you do with this community specific content that makes its way to the OSDPL?