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Re: [mylar-dev] Interest calculation rules
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Indeed, I do not usually link package explorer with editor... let me try
to turn it on.
Couple of thoughts though
Linking with editor does not help with new projects and folders as no
editor is opened upon their creation.
I am not 100% convienced about "has to be triggered by user" part yet.
More specifically, I am very interested in all locally changed files (as
in "compared to version from CVS") and I do not really care if I changed
these files directly, they were changed as a result of refactoring or
were changed on filesystem. Not sure what is the desired behaviour here...
Mik Kersten wrote:
(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
