21 Apr
2010
21 Apr
'10
12:53 a.m.
Richard wrote:
Well, I don't have time to invest in reverse
engineering someone's
schema in order to do something with it. ?The bar for contributing is
pretty high right now. ?I'm happy to collaborate with someone who has
put in the time to figure out the schema and now can explain it to me
so we can collaborate on some code for a community site that allows
expansion without central authority.
I'll have a stab at this over the next few days. Picking out the
foreign keys shouldn't be too difficult, but I'm not planning to go
into great detail, just enough to understand the current situation. A
new front-end wouldn't necessarily need to use an identical data
model, after all.
I think that was the downfall of the original manx.
?It required
everything to go through a single person who eventually became too
busy and/or uninterested. ?If we had something to which we could all
contribute as a community, I think it would have more legs.
Couldn't agree more.
Eventually it'd be nice to just fold it into
bitsavers proper.
I don't know if that's a good thing to aim for (as in I actually do
not know, I'm by no means against it).
--
Steve Maddison
http://www.cosam.org/