On Saturday 02 December 2006 16:04, Simon James wrote: > I wonder how many capable > contributors there are currently in Australia (or internationally) to > assist with the ongoing development of Argus or any other health related > open source projects?
At that stage, it seems the Argus people do not want any assistance in development. Maybe even a good thing if the source of software of that kind gets ruled by a tight fist. In any case, I have nothing against that. Source coming form a single hand has it's advantages. It' only about the *option*. Previously, we would have liked to use Argus with an alternative backend (Postgres), to be able to use the backend in a proper client-server relationship and not just (mis?)using Interbase as a bloated file system replacement with search capabilities, to be able too use it with keys and CAs of our choice rather than being forced into HeSA. Syan Tan has actually made most of these necessary changes - on the old source tree. To my knowledge, none of these changes were incorporated into the current tree. Makes it tedious and frustrating I guess, so I myself won't even start My surgery IT infrastructure is set up to strictly separate data from application, and application from system. Makes backing up a trivial and reliable unattended exercise, and makes securing the system a much easier job. Argus in it's current incarnation would break my paradigm, make my backups more complicated and hence less reliable, and I would have to start rethinking implications for network security. However, if we could fork Argus into our own source tree and simply keep patching it with whatever Argus produces, we could have the one solution that suits us so well (Postgres backend on separate database server, application on application server, HeSA but one of several possible CAs) regardless of whether it would suit others or not. Not having reliable access to current code though makes this again a futile exercise Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
