On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 16:24 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
I will start writing the wiki page this week and report the status once I have enough material that can benefit from feedback.
I did start writing the wiki page [1] last week but I got stuck at one point.
It is not easy to make a good and fair classification. If we just take the AudioCreation software away and make a new group with them, and leave all the Audio/Video players, Digital Media and Video production software in Multimedia, it will be bad design. We need a better solution, which is not that easy to find.
These are the types of software we have in the Multimedia group.
- Audio Player - Video Player - Both Audio and Video Player - Digital (optical) Media Creation - Digital (optical) Media Ripping - Video Creation - Subtitle software - Audio Creation (which itself has many sub-categories)
So how shall we do the branching?
* A starting point would be separating Audio and Video. Then make "Players" and "Creation" subgroups an each. But then where will the CD/DVD creation/ripping stuff will go?
* Another starting point would be to separate Creation stuff altogether, leaving all the players in Multimedia. Then the Creation group will contain both Audio and Video stuff. This is not a bad thing to do if the subgrouping is made logical.
* Yet another starting point is, do not create another main group. Just do all the subgrouping inside Multimedia.
I really can't decide which of the three to pick. Can I get some opinions here? In all the cases, we will have the issue of having some packages that belong to multiple subgroups. How shall we handle this?
Orcan
PS: I'm also CC'ing planetccrma list in case some users want to share their opinions.