Re: [VuFind-Tech] Community Engagement : Feedback requested

[Demian K. <dem...@vi...>]

Sorry for the delayed response - I figured it would be better to answer this after the holidays when more people will be checking their email!

Thanks for posting this.  All of your ideas sound good to me, though I think the idea of investigating possibilities for a plug-in architecture is probably the most broadly useful to the VuFind community, since it opens up the most possibilities and potentially makes it easier to bring more developers on board.  In fact, this is a topic that we should begin to discuss on the developers calls over the next few months.  I think it would be helpful to start hashing out an ideal architecture for VuFind 2.0 - having a well-defined target (or set of targets) will be valuable when we decide on our ultimate course of development.  I suspect it's going to come down to cost-benefit analysis between refactoring everything to a whole new design or bolting new features onto the existing structure...  and that may not be an easy or obvious decision!

- Demian

From: Greg Pendlebury [mailto:gre...@gm...]
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 7:04 PM
To: vuf...@li...
Subject: [VuFind-Tech] Community Engagement : Feedback requested

Hey all,

Just posted a blog entry on our team's dev blog:
http://adfi.usq.edu.au/dev_blog/2010/12/24/open-source-work-from-adfi/

Any feedback from the community on development ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Greg