Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gnumed governance junta plus development guidelines

[Jim Busser]

Not intentional at all. I have been combing through the gnumed-devel 
archive to try to further organize various but disparate bits of 
knowledge about the project. I was searching through anything on 
"guidelines", which is how I came across the old junta posting. I point 
out "old" and therefore very much in need of confirming / correcting / 
updating so thank you RIchard for re-confirming the interest, I'll 
amend the item as soon as the wiki comes back up.

Syan's point about mini-projects prompted Karsten to reply with the 
reminder about FIXMEs in various code and I found, among the old 
postings, other todos that I can feed back to the list in order that we 
determine their status and ongoing pertinence.

I thought it may be useful together together what has been suggested / 
decided about naming conventions. I have saved snippets into a text 
file after having weeded through 45 emails in the archive and to these 
I can add the couple of naming guidelines that appeared in the 
developer manual mainly to do with i18N. The snippets are a jumble of 
bits and pieces so will need some work once I post it for us to 
determine which parts remain true and which others could be important / 
helpful to add.

I am still learning how / where to extract additional educational 
information from gnumed itself. Thanks to the epydoc extract that 
Hilmar sent me, I will be able to inspect whether the python code 
itself contains commenting that informs about how things ought to be 
done more generally --- unless anyone already knows the answer to be 
probably no, that the comments just say what is being done and little 
that would relate to a generalizable strategy or guideline. In the 
latter event, I would get to it eventually only to learn more about the 
code.

I also will only slowly be getting more familiar with SQL but, having 
poked around with a tool I downloaded, am I correct to think that the 
sql files themselves contain commenting or other text content that may 
inform the development process and be worth abstracting?

On May 9, 2004, at 8:42 PM, Ian Haywood wrote:

> On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:15:03PM +1000, richard terry wrote:
> > Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> >
> > > > Key area coordinators for GnuMed (referencing also our wiki 
> > > > RoadMap):
> > I note I've been left off the wxPython front end list.
> >
> > Am I still involved here, even in the conceptual/design area?
> >
> > I don't pretend to be interested/ability to do the sophisticated 
> > coding,
> > but I can still oversee the functionality/design.
> I'm sure this is not intentional.
> IMHO there is still a lot of work in GUI design to be done, we need 
> some way of
> organising the modules into a coherent system, currently things pop up 
> where-ever
> individual developers think is appropriate (e.g. I have put the 
> referrals writer under
> "Patient Details", Sebastian has put the lab journal as a main 
> notebook tab)
>
> Ian