[board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-11-29 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi *, I would gladly enter a consortium or some other system to pool resources to finance a developer whose job it is to fix user-blocking bugs, Next little hint: Donation of 2000,- € to Document Foundation, special Base, 2022-10-11. Have created a database for a second company in Germany.

[board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-11-29 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
Hi, I'm touched that Julien thought of me to be employed to work on Base, but being fully occupied, and beyond, by my own business, I'm not available for employ (at reasonable market rates for a programmer). I do think that the whole scripting ecosystem, and doing SQL database-driven data entry,

Re: [board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-03-31 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Hossein, thanks for your feedback and support. I'll follow up shortly with you to see if your experience in joining the team as Developer Community Architect could provide further insights on how to best integrate and manage new in-house developers. Ciao Paolo On 31/03/2022 07:32,

Re: [board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-03-30 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Sat, 2022-03-26 at 21:13 +, Caolán McNamara wrote: > On Fri, 2022-03-25 at 12:21 +0100, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > > > - fixing old regressions, e.g. the chart bug in the report builder; > > This one I'm unaware of. Is this bug#87012 or another? tdf#117162 apparently. Seems to work

Re: [board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-03-26 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Fri, 2022-03-25 at 12:21 +0100, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > - making embedded Firebird the functional equivalent of embedded > hsqldb - currently, it is like some awkward reject, shivering in the > cold and dark - lots of incremental improvements to be made here; > - migrating the Java report

[board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-03-25 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Paolo, Am 23.03.22 um 15:08 schrieb Paolo Vecchi: Hi all, following the initial consultation in regards to the first draft I've included some of the recommendations and comments received. You can find the new version here: https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/d5fF4eCK4JHtpHj The

[board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-03-25 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, See my comments inline under Julien's. Le 25/03/2022 à 09:18, Julien Nabet a écrit : Firebird is not the only pb, charts aren't displayed anymore in reports and the whole reports part is dependent on old Java external components. Yes, the issue of charts in reports no longer being

[board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-03-25 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi *, So yes, hiring 1 or 2 people on Base part could be relevant unless we'd like to abandon Base. Only one hint: I have created a database for a company in Germany (Firebird internal → will be moved to PostgreSQL server). Donation of 3000,- € special for Base has been transfered

[board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-03-25 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi Julien, thanks a lot for the input! Michael PS: I've fixed Lionel's email address now, something went wrong when I copy-pasted it into my previous email. On 25/03/2022 09.18, Julien Nabet wrote: Hello, Here are some thoughts about Base. Some years ago, there was some decision to

Re: [board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-03-24 Thread Michael Weghorn
On 25/03/2022 06.50, Michael Weghorn wrote: I've seen Julien doing some work there recently. Maybe he, Lionel or anybody else might be able to say more on whether it would make sense to consider that as a potential area to be worked on by TDF in-house developers. [Something went wrong when

[board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-03-24 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi Paolo, thanks for the updated draft and integrating my references to meta bugs. Another potential focus area might be Base (the database module). Alex mentioned it in another thread (that had a different main focus) [1] and I've heard from time to time that it isn't in the best shape.