Comment on Archive Roadmap 2013

  1. notACoder (Guest) Wed 27 Mar 2013 10:38PM UTC

    0.8, 0.9, 0.10, 0.11, 1.0 seems like a really odd sequence if you look at like numerical values.

    I thought an explanation of how you go from what looks like .9 to a much lower number was in order.

    But is it really zero.nine to zero.ten to zero.eleven to one.zero?

    Because to a non-techie it looks like you started over after nine back at one again.

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    And given your other answer but not directed at you, rather at the authors of this post:

    I think that the summary and then interlude structure of the document might lead readers to infer that the summary items (the media type tag and filtering for example) will come before the interlude and therefore sooner in time than it really will.

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    1. ghost_lingering Thu 28 Mar 2013 01:32AM UTC

      minus prepares to hit a meteor out of the park

      I was confused about the 0.10 and 0.11 as well! I figured it out, but it took me a while.

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    2. AO3_Support (Official) Thu 28 Mar 2013 04:10PM UTC

      Oh yes, that's supposed to be point nine, point ten, and point eleven. It's more common, from what I've learnt from Wikipedia*, to go from 0.9 to 1.0 (which might have been less confusing), but we felt we weren't quite there yet, so we slipped in two more milestones before the big one.

      (* I didn't find this article to be super accessible to laypeople, myself included, but it has some nice software versioning trivia ...if you're into that kind of thing.)

      I'm actually one of the authors of this post (hi!), and I see what you're saying! However, we're hoping to keep this interlude relatively short and focus on taking stock and making plans, instead of fixing all the things at once, so it shouldn't affect the progress of our work to a noticeable degree.

      Thanks again for commenting, lemme know if you have any other questions.

      -mumble
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