On 09/05/2013 01:07 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich wrote: > > On 2013-08-29, at 08:01 , Jason Stephenson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I am going to be brutally honest, because that is my role in the >> community. I don't think it is going anywhere until someone says, >> "Here's $50 000. Do it." > > Are you talking about what it would cost to develop and maintain a > modern high-quality web-based interface to replace all the > functionality currently done in the staff client based on XUL? If so, > I think your estimate is probably somewhat conservative. Your honesty > is not brutal enough! ;)
I just pulled the numbers out of the air. I didn't actually sit down and estimate what I think it would really take. > > Lacking sponsors who are willing to pay now to solve a somewhat > hypothetical future problem, another way to approach this issue would > be to first get some general agreement that we would like to have > something different from a XUL-based client at some point in the > future, say 5 years, and start working in that direction. Absent a > large upfront investment, but with a common vision, we could still > get there in about the same amount of time. The existing client and > whatever may be developed to replace it would still have to coexist > for a long time for a phased transition to occur. I think the > community has some experience with this type of a transition from > JSPAC to TTPAC. > That horse is waiting for burial. Someone who has the time needs to come up with a plan, share it with the community, get feedback and buy-in and get to work. We've know for at least three years now that XulRunner was not going to last forever. -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
