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Threads and the progress of projects
Topic Started: Jul 12 2012, 06:03 AM (32 Views)
Bovk

I like the idea of a site where the goal would be to arrive to the best solution of a problem that is common to AS owners.
My worry is that we will degrade to usual endless threads where the problem definition, possible solutions and the best solution are buried and inpossible to get to quickly.

Please take this paragraph as a suggestion, most probably not the best one but I would like to see what others say. Also, pardon my English, it is not my native language.

I would like to suggest an organization of the topics (or categories as "General Discussion") to support the development of a task. For instance, we would have discussion about priorities or possible projects in "general discussion" as we do now. Then we would have category "Task definition and suggestions" where the tasks (in threads) would be described with background, possible solutions and references; for instance the thread about tires would be there. The we may need a category "Final prototypes", again each task would have its thread, where the best solution would be described, commented on, agreed on. And finally the task solution would be moved to "Best solution" where the task threads would be very short, easy to get to and comments would be limited to if it works or not.
In short :=), the problem or task would have three threads in three different categories, first - very general discussion, second - very specific discussion about solution and the third just describing the solution.
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redwoodguy
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Thanks Bovk. That is pretty much what I had in mind here. I am an engineer, and I am very project oriented. If you read down through the posts in general discussion, you will see a list of projects. I then suggested that as each project begins, it will get its own thread and that becomes the working thread for that project until completed.

I started the forum about 10 days ago. There were just a couple of us and some went off on vacation. So, please realize this is just in the very beginning phase. Read down through the rest of the thread to see the projects we have suggested. Make comments as you see fit, and we will make some progress.
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Bovk

Apparently I was not reading the rest of the forum when I wrote the first post above. The category "Working projects" that we already have is what I called "Task definition and suggestions" (Working projects sounds better).
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