[s-d] Generic Document storage

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right now we have a single Rulebook with all the rules in it. We also 
have a couple other types of Game Document floating around, like Props, 
Talisman definitions, etc.

I think we should upgrade the Rulebook system to instead have 
Documentbooks. Each Docbook has some type of Game Documents in it (but 
only Documents of a single type - no books containing both props and 
House Ordinances).

We should then establish a labeling system that lets us uniquely 
identify objects, i.e. "RS:12-3/5" means the 5th revision of document 3 
from section 12 of the Ruleset, and "PL:1-280/4" means revision 4 of 
document 280 from section 1 of the Proposal List, etc.

Each document would have a few basic fields:
Book, Section, ID, Revision, Title, Body, and Nweek of Creation. Each 
type of document could then have additional fields if need be.

All documents would be stored in a database on the server, probably 
with one table per type of document; this would allow for fast 
searching, listing, etc., and the wiki's built in diff-formatting tools 
could be used to view changes between versions.

A really ambitious project would be to then import all of B Nomic's 
history into this system - have a book of "Archaic Rules" from before 
the rules reset, and another for "Archaic Props". Maybe to save space 
some books (or specific sections?) like these could be flagged as not 
saving older versions of the documents stored in them.

What thinkst the populace?

--
Wonko

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic 
simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we 
can assume it will be pretty bad.
     -Dave Barry (1947 - )

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