Hello, I am not sure how this might turn out, is it only discussion or do you also want to develop a specification language/toolset? In either case it does not sound like the typical commons sub-project. What infrastructure would you require?
Gruss Bernd -- http://bernd.eckenfels.net ________________________________ From: Claude Warren <cla...@xenei.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 10:36:55 AM To: Commons Developers List Subject: Discussion: New commons module/project Disclaimer: I am not certain of the proper nomenclature to use here so when I say module consider that it may be a sub-project or project under commons. The term should be taken to mean a collection of the things under discussion. I would like to propose a commons module for the development and documentation of algorithms. As anyone who has tried can attest, writing specifications that are not misunderstood is nigh on impossible. This module would provide an area to discuss various algorithms and work out code examples in various languages for implementation. For example: Bloom Filters. When creating a bloom filter you take the modulus of a digest to determine which bit in a bit vector to turn on. But the modulus of a negative number is negative. So is it proper to take the absolute value (abs) of the modulus or the digest or are you required to consider the digest to be a very long unsigned integer? All of these choices have repercussions and may impact interoperability. I have several co-workers and friends that are interested in exploring algorithms of this sort. Is there any interest here in starting such discussions? If so how does one go about it? I would like to see a ticketing system (Jira?) that discussions could be conducted against. So, for example, a single ticket for bloom filter implementation. The ticket would stay open until consensus was achieved. Once achieved the result would be documented and references to the discussion provided. Not clear on where to document the results and whether or not that documentation would include code. Thoughts? Claude -- I like: Like Like - The likeliest place on the web <http://like-like.xenei.com> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren
