[CompInaBox-discuss] I'm starting on the SlidingDoors re-implementation...

[Eric D N. <nie...@MI...>]

Like last "summer" I'm starting off with an ambitious plan, if I make decent
progress by June, I'll continue with the plan, otherwise I'll fallback to a
more conservative approach.

The plan --
  rewrite all of SlidingDoors -- registration, stats, and comp admin
  eliminate the per competition databases (merge content into the central DB)
  build a comprehensive test suite
  migrate to a better MVC architecture

I've been wanting to eliminate the per-competition databases for a long time;
however that requires touching a lot of the files.  Therefore a rewrite is the
right time to do it.  If I'm starting from "scratch" its easier to ensure that
the proper test cases are involved.

I plan to lift as much code as I can from the old CIB and my work last summer on
migrating to the new MVC architecture.  I haven't figured out how to combine the
goals of code-reuse and comprehensive test cases.

I hope to proceed using test driven development, for both source changes and DB
schema changes.

If anyone is interested in helping, as always, please let me know.  A division
of labor with someone helping with either the admin or stats while I tackle the
registration, or vice versa, etc would be very helpful.

Eric