26 Feb
2015
26 Feb
'15
2:14 p.m.
Subject:
Re: [44net] Portal
From:
Tom Hayward <esarfl(a)gmail.com>
Date:
02/26/2015 08:06 PM
To:
AMPRNet working group <44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu>
I think if you were to open source the portal you would get more
volunteers. I, and many other open source developers, tend to wait to
jump in to a new project until we have an itch that needs scratching.
When a bug affects me, I'll look to the source to see if I can squash
it. If I can, the project maintainer can expect a patch from me. If
the source isn't public, I'll send a bug report to the developer. I
presume you would prefer patches to bug reports.
I agree with that. I have submitted several reports and explained my requirements to Tom
SP2L
but as I have no access to the code I cannot have a glance to see how quickly some of my
immediate
requirements can be built in, let alone do the work and submit it.
I still get "DNS requests" from users who apparently do not see the big red
print on top of the DNS page,
and I cannot edit the subnet structure in the system to match reality. I submitted it in
text form to
Chris long ago but it was not inserted.
We are currently building a HAMNET similar to what has been done in Germany and Austria,
and
we really need a working system some time. I fully understand that time is not always
available,
but some way has to be found to keep the day-to-day operations possible, maybe with a
lower
level access to the data when writing code for the userfriendly web frontend is the
bottleneck.
Rob