On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 20:11, Martijn van Oosterhout <[email protected]> wrote: > 2. Long term it would be good if there were more people who could work > on the system. I have the feeling that the current codebase, being > essentially Perl with not very good abstractions reduces the number of > potential contributors. If I were to do it again today I'd build it in > Python using Django. My feeling is that this would make it more > accessible for new people. Does anybody have any ideas about that?
Perl discouraged me to look at the code in the past and I would have looked it if were Python and if I could run and fiddle with it on my system. But that's just me. > The nicest thing is that rebuilding it would allow us to remove > several layers of abstraction, the current system being built to send > and receive emails from the DDTP. With direct access to the DB several > new features become much easier. Perhaps the web interface for the > DDTP could be included making improvements there as well (it could use > a facelift). A facelift would be nice, though not necessary. The DDTSS interface is fairly functional, the problem is it's often broken. I'd also welcome if it were faster. Regards, ~~helix84 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
