Graph-Driven SoftwareForge

Graph-Driven SoftwareForge: built on a pattern of graphs (everything is a graph)....

• cf NodeWeb-2030

(Your Threaded Discussion is obviously a graph (cf Holocene). And the connections between tasks and discussion-threads is a graph.)

Equally messy, your IssueTracker is a graph, esp once you embrace

• sub-story Tasks
• not-software-dev Tasks

And, unless your organization has an amazing culture of focus, it's probably hard to stay clear on why you're doing something, or more-importantly, what you should do next. And when everyone is struggling with this, collaborating across groups becomes a nightmare.

A theory:

• you start from higher-level Strategic Context and OKRs to prioritize major themes of action/attention
• you have a graph of beliefs/ideas and actions, all eventually connecting to that Context
  • see Claim-Refactoring Service
• attention/energy flows down/out/around the graph from the context: WebOfPriority calculated like WebOfTrust.

But maybe this is "solving the wrong problem", compensating for poor culture and structure and incentives. Tech rarely wins that battle within an org.

• cf Decision Rationalizing

Later-related: (2022-04-13) Revisiting AppWiki and WikiProxy

Note this is real-team-targeted, vs TaskCloud: but could both be the same? Yes, except that TaskCloud raises all sorts of complexities (Local-First) for the sake of Decentralization, which is good for Network Economy but irrelevant to the average current/normal team. So maybe Worse-is-Better approach is to get this designed/working in a standard-SaaS model, then refine as decentralized...?

Jul'2022 thoughts

• the priority-calculation is pointless, but being able to connect tasks upward to layers of strategic context is highly valuable
• goal2, being able to create subthreads/subtasks all-the-way-down is also crucial
• goal3 is to be able to relate anything to anything, simply because Everything Is A Graph
• goal4 is to be able to have async discussions with appropriate context
• other wants
  • fast, like Asana webapp
    • ideally, the "async" discussion UI is almost as fast enough for real-time
  • easy to add yourself to any "thread"
• What, is Tana the solution?

Sept'2023 thoughts

• given that your DVCS already has a web-UI, that doesn't need to be built-in here
  • counter-argument: it's good for commit-comments and code-comments to use double-brackets and have them link to this space....
    • counter-counter: plan for browser extension to provide linking in such webapps.... (2022-04-13) Revisiting AppWiki and WikiProxy
• so SoftwareForge feels (a) too heavy/complex, and (b) too software-team-focused
• so need a reframe/rename....
• this supports: notes+tasks (like an IssueTracker Wiki but graphy), plus discussions....
• TeamGarden? TeamSpace? TeamWiki? I'll go with the first...