[Infrastructures] Infrastructures.Org rework

[counts@digicat.org]

On 2006-02-22, Steve Traugott wrote:

> Kevin, a few years ago you posted the Infrastructure Design Patterns
> idea below.  Developments at a current client tell me that, maybe now
> more than ever we (1) need a pattern library, and (2) now have enough
> material to populate it. 

I agree. It seems as if we are seeing more and more infrastructure
implementations popping up lately (just look at the Feb 2006 issue of Usenix ";login").
The concepts developed in Isconf and other related systems
should provide enough raw material to flesh out a solid collection of patterns
(and as Devdas mentioned perhaps anti-patterns).

> Everyone else; the question I have for you is this:  Would you be
> willing to contribute to a wiki or other community-edited repository
> of documents which serve as design patterns and RFC-like standards
> documents, in which, by contributing, you might be listed in a
> "contributors" section, but would not retain copyright in your
> contribution?

I think a wiki would be great! After all it was Design Patterns
that really started the whole wiki thing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#History).

> An example to emulate, for instance, might be the Python Cookbook;
> recipes drawn from the web site are published in an O'Reilly book, and
> the primary contributors are credited with each recipe.

Great idea. So what animal would you think appropriate? ;-)

Regards,

Kevin

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