On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 02:50:26AM -0500, Ringo wrote: > I'm not asking for any jurisdiction conversion here, just a little help > getting through the install process. I plan on changing the agency > names, content, etc. manually (thinking this will require some database > hacking if I'm not mistaken but maybe there's a fancy admin panel for > it, I don't know).
It'll require a lot more than just installing it, as the UK legislation details are hard coded into the templates and the logic throughout the application. To do a good job of generalising it is several weeks work. After that, it would be much easier to do new jurisdictions - just the first one is more work. However, I'd really really really like somebody to do it properly. If you just hack it, you'll have a fork of WhatDoTheyKnow, that will cost you more to maintain in the long run. Can you tell us more about your project? What do you want to use the WhatDoTheyKnow code to do? What is your budget? What programming skills do you or people on your team have? I don't want to put you off, so go for it anyway no matter what I say! But you'll be making yourself future cost if you don't pay now for the code to be properly generalised. > This software looks awesome but if I can't get it installed I'll never > know whether it is or not : / It is not general purpose code, it is specifically coded for the UK. That can be fixed, and would be very cheap compared to rewriting the site to fix. Francis _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
