License Wizard

[Alex Rousskov]

On Fri, 2005/04/08 (MDT), <geek at devcompany.com> wrote:

>> On Friday 08 April 2005 5:19 am, Brian O'Byrne wrote:
>> It seems to me that creating a complete and closed tree of questions
>> is a horrendously complex task, and will be difficult to maintain as
>> new licenses come on stream.
>
> and does nothing to communicate the true "general concensus". It seems  
> that putting a nice front end on a "wizard" that only returns a hard  
> coded set of results is a bit un-democratic and can not really be  
> trusted to help make a "decision" based on the widest cross section of  
> available input.
>
> why not provide an interface where the "legal" folks can provide their  
> input and assign their own "weight" to each license/question/attribute  
> via a web form, still using your -100/100 scale, then open this up to  
> the public.

I think this is pretty much what is being proposed and implemented. The  
core of the wizard supports arbitrary number of configurations. No  
licenses/questions/weights/etc. are hard-coded. If OSI decides to let user  
select wizard configuration based on configuration author, they can!  
Otherwise, non-OSI configurations can be hosted elsewhere (and possibly  
linked from OSI site).

We are starting with a simple hand-edited config file, but it would be  
easy to add an web interface to adjust weights and other configuration  
options.

Hope this clarifies. Please see the "wizard design" thread for more info  
and examples. More will be posted soon. If you are interested in helping  
with the effort, please contact me! I am trying to stay away from writing  
code, but I think that Justin Clift, the person who is doing the coding is  
using PHP (just like you wanted), and we can use more brains/hands :-).

Thank you,

Alex.