[wplug] Still at codefest, software developers don't know a ticketing system when they see it.

[John Lewis]

It is impossible to not code if you plan to implement business rules and
customize the interface.

On 02/22/2015 10:34 AM, Zachary Uram wrote:
> The whole point of CODEfest is to write code! Seems obvious. Yes there may
> be other open source tools you can use, but that is not the point of the
> codefest.
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:13 AM, John Lewis <oflameo2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My team took the careownership challenge.
>>
>> It may be from my prejudice of being a sysadmin, but some of these
>> charities think they are going to use these applications in production.
>>
>> If other teams thought about security, documentation, and deployment as
>> much as we did, I would not recommend putting any of the applications in
>> production under any circumstance.
>>
>> Coding something from scratch before investigating if there is free
>> software that cleanly fits the use case just seems incredibly wasteful
>> in my opinion.
>>
>> On 02/22/2015 08:36 AM, Jake S wrote:
>>> Isn't that one of points of codefest, to code from scratch during that
>> limited time frame? Which challenge did you guys do?
>>> --- Original Message ---
>>>
>>> From: "John Lewis" <oflameo2 at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: February 21, 2015 8:16 PM
>>> To: wplug at wplug.org
>>> Subject: [wplug] Still at codefest, software developers don't know a
>> ticketing system when they see it.
>>> I spent half the day configuring a system for a bunch of hacks, who seem
>>> to rather write things form scratch than to appropriate already
>>> functioning and debugged Free and Open Source Software. It wasn't all
>>> their fault, because we didn't get enough of the requirements initially
>>> from the customer.
>>>
>>> Still, I think this whole project can be completed on a standard
>>> bugzilla installation that is restickerd to look like a new application.
>>> It seems like there may be only a couple of odd reports.
>>>
>>> The hardest part is either implementing the demographics form or
>>> rebranding bugzilla if we went that route.
>>>
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