[Calendula-devel] plans plans plans

[Darryl Caldwell]

Hello all,

Thanks for all of the input. I can hear nonprofits around the world
breathing an unconscious sigh of relief....

Ok. The tasks at hand:

1. If you are interested in development, get an account on Savannah and
let me know your account name.

2. Design docs. First, do the requirements (REQ) look good to everyone?
Do we need to convert any of the existing items into standard UML?

3. Language: Python for flexibility, readability, and as my own safety
net (meaning if you all get hit by a bus, I need to be able to forge
ahead). wxPython has really good support for adopting a native
look/feel, but this will come after the Zope prototype.

-D

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 08:26, Bill Bell wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2004 at 10:00, Thomas Panzarella wrote:
> > 
> > What I will agree on is that "strong testing" ..
> 
> I seem to hear you alluding to the idea that language choice and testing strategy are 
> interdependent. If so, I definitely agree, FWIW. We would need to discuss this 
> further. In fact, we need statements about language choice and testing strategy.
> 
> More generally, I haven't noticed any outline about software engineering for this 
> project. Perhaps we should start one, so that, as far as possible, we discuss issues 
> once, record decisions, then move on to issues that haven't been decided.
> 
> > Don't know about [Leo] ... send some links that we could check out...
> 
> http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html
> 
> ... which seems to provide a link to literate programming, as a bonus. I was amazed 
> to see an idea as old as this re-emerge; still, it might help us.
> 
> > >Or, maybe there's a free vehicle that supports UML; I'd love to know about 
> > >one.
> > http://www.gentleware.com/products/descriptions/ce.php4
> 
> Thanks. Poseidon seems to be most closely associated with java, but then Leo 
> favours Python work. Either looks interesting to me. Let's put this matter into an 
> outline. Once we have enough items, let's priortise them, and finish discussions, so 
> that we can move on.
> 
> > Anyway, I absolutely don't want to debate over language preferences
> > with anyone.  ...I'm interested in helping non-profits, not debating
> > the technical merits of Python vs. Java or whatever.... 
> 
> So you concede that Python is better???? Only joking! 
> 
> I don't care either. However, we need to start a process for taking decisions in order 
> to make progress.
> 
> Bill
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