Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:07:15 -0700
| From: | Eric Armstrong |
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eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com Reply-To: unrev-II@egroups.com |
| To: | unrev-II@egroups.com |
| Subject: | Traction, by Twisted Systems |
Something
missed on the first viewing,
but got on
the second: There really is no sense of "hierarchical
document" in Traction. So a message like the one below
goes out as one contiguous whole, rather than a collection
of paragraph-sized fragments. The only for your comments
to appear "in context", therefore, is for you to edit
the node directly. Fine for a single comment, but breaks
down quickly in a long discussion, especially given the
lack of hierarchical display-controls in such a setting.
I'm still impressed they managed to integrate version, categorizing (plus re-categorizing and an audit trail of changes), and attributions. But the system as it stands today seems to run more by queries than by browsing, so maybe it is more of a "journaling" system than an interactive discussion tool.
Still: Chris assures us that their whole outfit uses it all the time, for everything, so possibly there is still a lot of power to be gained from the system after resetting one's expectations...
Sincerely,
Eric Armstrong
eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com