Re: [Openledger-developer] Random jottings

[Jacques C. <ja...@ch...>]

David Pool wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:19 +0930, Jacques Chester wrote:
> 
> 
>>I suggest that your long term goal would be the full suite,
>>probably implemented as  a website and maybe in other forms for
>>interested parties.
> 
> 
> Jacques,
> 
> I appreciated the thoughtful analysis and suggests, I'd like to comment
> on them a bit later. The pronoun "your" was a bit off-putting at first
> and then a bit disappointing.

I apologise if it was seen as talking down to anyone.
I wrote in this sense: "Your common or garden variety
daisy is white", rather than "Your daughter is troublesome".
The former emphasis (where "Your" replaces "The" or "a") is
common in Australian English, and is usually clear from the
spoken context. The fault in communication is entirely mine.

> I guess my question is what you see your
> role in the project as?

Interested commentator and loud smartypants. I'm
involved in some clubs and societies, and I've
occasionally looked for a better book keeping
solution than our current spreadsheets, paper and
the odd spot of gum and sticky tape. It would be
nice to have a reasonable computer accounting package
which was affordable and could integrate with existing
and future systems. Further, for certain clubs the question
of opensource licensing is important or even central.

The thing that has always kept me back from SQL-Ledger
is that it does not play well with other systems. As I
say, I'm no coding guru but I like to tinker. The idea
that I'll be stranded with little island fortresses of
data bugs me. I'd rather not have to put up with it
if I can. A decent API to SQL-Ledger, or in general,
would make it possible to remove redundant information
from various systems.

> And if not a role, than what your interest is,
> since I doubt you'd be reading the threads if you didn't have some
> interest.

I've toyed around with the idea of beating SQL-Ledger
into a more CPANesque beast - in the context of my
comments above - usually with OpenInteract as my
preferred environment for doing so. Since this is a
project well beyond my abilities, I figured it would
be smarter to see if anyone else was doing similar.
Here you are! :)

> Thanks again though for the commentary, I think the project needs to do
> both code development and project self-management at the same time.

Maybe. The creation of code, any code, often forms
the catalysing ingredient for success. As a casual
perusal of Sourceforge demonstrates, projects which
don't produce useful code early in life tend to fail.
Opensource has a very strong Second System effect.

JC.