RE: [mylar-dev] Interest calculation rules

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

(sorry, hit send too soon)

The two options I see are:
1) Have Mylar monitor the creation of new resources
2) Automatically turn on Link with Editor on the Package Explorer and
Navigator when in filtered mode, and revert to previous state when filtered
mode is toggled off.

(1) is problematic because it would be very hard to determine whether a new
resource creation was something triggered by the user, and would involve
adding brittle heuristics to determine this.  So I'm leaning towards (2)
because the Mylar mode on a tree view makes a lot more sense when it's in
Linked Mode.  The only reason I can see for not wanting it clicked on is
when your context gets big enough to get a scrollbar, but we can deal with
that by having a "no scrollbar" mode that automatically adapts the interest
filter threshold.  And of course you could still click it off when needed.

Mik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mik Kersten [mailto:beatmik@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: November 10, 2005 10:01 AM
> To: 'Mylar developer discussions'
> Subject: RE: [mylar-dev] Interest calculation rules
> 
> Hi Igor,
> 
> As soon as an element is selected or edited it becomes interesting.  Each
> selection and edit after that increments the interest.  Each selection
> event also decays the interest of the element, so that if you only select
> the element once than a number of selections and edits later it will
> disappear from a filtered view.  Predicted interest (e.g. errors, active
> search, propagation of interest to parents) can also raise the interest of
> elements.  That's how a class becomes interesting if you select a member.
> All of the factors in this calculation can be adjusted, and are only
> roughly tuned in 0.4.  Also, some will be exposed with UI in the future,
> and things like the decay rate can be made to adapt dynamically (as long
> as that doesn't end up feeling too magical).
> 
> I think that the problem you're seeing is that newly created resources
> fail to become interesting right away if you have Link with Editor turned
> off on the package explorer.  Try turning it on and then creating a class
> or file, it should pop into the model right away because a selection event
> is generated.  This is a usability 'bug' and we need to do something about
> it. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Igor Fedorenko
> > Sent: November 10, 2005 9:49 AM
> > To: mylar-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [mylar-dev] Interest calculation rules
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I apologise if this has been answered before but I am looking for
> > information about different heuristics Malar uses to calculate degree of
> > interest and reasons behind these heuristics.
> >
> > Particular behaviour I am trying to understand at the moment is how
> > Mylar treats new and modified resources. For example, newly created
> > project is not considered interesting enough. Likewise, it takes awhile
> > before mylar considers new/changes files interesting even though current
> > set of interesting resources is empty.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Igor Fedorenko
> >
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