[Data-modeling] the commons / non distinction is a farce

[Tom Morris]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Kirrily Robert<kirrily at metaweb.com> wrote:

> The email notification system that just came
> live is a help as it allows us to contact schema admins more easily.

I wouldn't count on this necessarily helping.  I was quite surprised
recently to discover that I wasn't subscribed to updates for a domain
that I created, so   I just created
https://bugs.freebase.com/browse/FREEBASE-834 suggesting that admins
be forced to listen to updates on their domains.

> Acre
> code search is likely to be increasingly useful for seeing just how
> many people are using a certain schema in their apps (it won't catch
> non-Acre apps, but as the number of apps grows, it will at least give
> us *some* idea.)

If this is to distinguish things that need non-breaking refactorings
vs those that don't, I think you should assume that every piece of the
schema is being used and refactor it in a non-breaking fashion, if at
all possible.  If it's to determine "popularity" of particular
domains/types/properties, I'd suggest that doing it by query count
would be a) more realistic in terms of popularity and b) fairer to
non-Acre apps.

Tom