Rule Maker RFC¶

Description¶

There's a need for a distributed, general-purpose method that enables any person to author, publish, discover, fetch, scrutinize, prioritize and optionally automate rules on digital networks at scale and with speed. The Xalgorithms Foundation has created a general purpose free/libre/open method called DWDS. Rule Maker is an interface that enables users to construct rules in a way that is consistent with the Data with Direction specification.

Rule Maker adopts a philosophy of iterative development...

Given the emergent nature of the interface, Rule Maker is being developed using a methodology of continuous testing

RM v0.4 is a webapp built in Svelte

Features¶

Rule authoring is a complex process comprised of a number of activities. However, only some of these must be supported by RMv4. This diagram shows what is supported in the application and what takes place outside.

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This diagram defines all the actions that a user would need to accomplish in rule maker.

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A required actions across the main areas of RM

• dev

  • manifest doc enabling dev to define:
    • path to json doc defining custom metadata fields (aka a rule template)
    • path to css defining custom styling choices

• application

  • metadata
    • display fields as defined by json document
    • structure user input into well formatted json per DWDS
  • table editor
    • display table editor UI
    • structure user input into well formatted json per DWDS
  • output
    • display fields as defined by json document
    • structure user input into well formatted json per DWDS
  • publication
    • download json
    • publish to RR (??)

Iterative Development¶

What's been learned so far?

Developer and User Experience¶