I concur with you.
Count me in!
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Gjergj Sheldija
<gjergj.sheld...@gmail.com>wrote:
> hi Frank,
>
> actually there are a lot of positions to fill in the care2x project.
>
> are you in ?
>
> gj.
>
> On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 23:09 +0300, Frank Tilugulilwa wrote:
> > I concur with you.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Gjergj Sheldija
> > <gjergj.sheld...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi all
> >
> > this mail was sent some time ago..i think thay i should resend
> > it again..
> >
> > A long time has passed since c2x appeared and a lot of things
> > have
> > changed over the years.
> >
> >
> > PHP has become a more robust and business oriented language, a
> > lot of
> > tools are disposable for developers and a lot of new business
> > strategies are available to help with the common day to day
> > problems
> > that we encounter.
> >
> >
> > Localization and internationalization are now more easy that
> > they used
> > to be, and php 6 promises even further improvements via
> > Unicode
> > support. Creating user documentation is now much more easy via
> > wiki’s
> > and Java script libraries can help a lot with designing rich
> > and
> > practical UI.
> >
> >
> > I thing that the time is right to start a small revolution in
> > c2x;
> > i’ll list here some suggestion that I think would be useful,
> > they may
> > be right, may not; it’s up to the community to decide.
> >
> >
> > Printing
> >
> >
> > I think printing should be centralized, we should use a
> > centralized
> > code to do that. Agatha with some improvements could ease the
> > creation
> > of new print forms without the need to specify pdf coordinated
> > by hand
> > as we actually do.
> >
> >
> > Localization
> >
> >
> > The current way c2x has of handling translation is very hard
> > to
> > maintain and error prone. A migration to gettext could ease
> > the
> > translation efforts and help c2x greaten it’s userbase.
> >
> >
> > Besides that there are strange cases like
> > js_<lang>_sex_title.php
> > which is not used in any file.
> >
> >
> > Manual / Help files
> >
> >
> > We all know how hard it is to write, update c2x help files,
> > that why
> > not use a wiki engine ? It would easy the process of
> > maintenance of
> > the the help files, it’s much more easy to translate and this
> > way we
> > could create a much needed manual, and have it updated
> > automatically.
> >
> >
> > HL7
> >
> >
> > The actual implementation of HL7 is practically non existent.
> > But the
> > we should discuss here about v2 or v3, and if it has to be
> > part of
> > every module, or it should be and external library.
> >
> >
> > The Code….
> >
> >
> > Here are a lot of things that should be changed and and lot
> > should be
> > deleted.
> >
> >
> > * First there is a lot of code that should be rewritten,
> > think
> > about sql code inside the module code, which is not a good
> > practice.
> > * Second there is no real separation of modules, module
> > files are
> > scattered all around the directory tree, which makes even
> > harder to
> > apply updates and change code around.
> > * Third , the code needs some major clean up; there is a
> > lot of
> > unused code all over which makes further improvements
> > difficult.
> >
> >
> > And a lot of other things that I didn’t mention.
> >
> >
> > UI
> >
> >
> > Major improvements should be done on the ui side, from simple
> > things
> > as changing the tab interface from using images to simple js,
> > to new
> > visualization of the ward, to the possibility of connecting a
> > specific
> > user or group of users to a specific module – an example is
> > the
> > Glasgow Coma Scale.
> >
> >
> > The notification system used in the labs, pharmacy, depot,
> > technical
> > is a bit outdated, a little ajax could make it much more
> > usable.
> >
> >
> > A new theming engine css based could help much more and ease
> > the
> > creation of new UI.
> >
> >
> > Other scattered ideas..
> >
> >
> > Other things that could be helpful is we should start to use
> > automatic
> > testing, modules can be installable from a central repository,
> > the
> > possibility of connecting specific users to specific
> > modules,etc.
> >
> >
> > Another thing is that we should avoid static configuration in
> > files
> > like $OpenTimes in lang_<lang>_abteilung.php and preferably
> > have them
> > stored in the db.
> >
> >
> > this mail could be even more lengthy, but I hope you
> > understand my
> > point : c2x should evolve and it needs our help to do it!
> >
> > gj.
> >
> >
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