13 Jan
2016
13 Jan
'16
12:11 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Brian Kantor <Brian(a)ucsd.edu> wrote:
The existing portal works fairly
well for a first cut at making one. Undoubtedly we'll refine it but that
depends on volunteers to do the design and programming (PHP, Javascript),
and so far several calls for volunteers have fallen on deaf ears.
This isn't completely true. You can grep the archives for "I'll be
happy to help with the programming" to find at least one offer.
Alternatively, my opinion is that Chris would get more help if the
project were open sourced. Now instead of recruiting volunteers, he
will have contributors. This allows for a lot more flexibility. For
example, a ham in one part of the world is stuck at home on a rainy
weekend is setting up an AMPR system and encounters a bug. Meanwhile,
Chris is enjoying a weekend away from the computer in a part of the
world with more favorable weather. With an open source project, the
first ham can dig around for the bug and send Chris a patch without
any pre-approval. When Chris returns, he can vet the patch before
applying it to the SVN [or whatever technology] repo. This
significantly lowers the bar for volunteers and administration.
If the portal is open sourced, expect a patch from me within the first week.
Tom KD7LXL