Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: releaseTodo (was roadmap tidying)

[Richard Terry]

That sounds like the sort of hackwork I can do inbetween patients if you 
explicitly tell me what to do.

Richard


On Monday 19 September 2005 20:00, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:23:50AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
> > I now understand that you meant a default for situations where it was
> > unknown whether the bootstrap set contained the universe of states
> > for particular countries.
>
> In particular for countries for which the backend does not
> contain *any* state...
>
> > So maybe in that case the default should be "xxxdefaultxxx". Or blank
> > spaces? I thought about "??" as a means to suggest to a user that it
> > may need to be filled in however there had been earlier agreement to
> > respect the possibility of it being confused with programming syntax.
>
> Correct. I have been thinking about simply adding a state
> called "unknown state/province/territory" to the backend -
> not even providing a translation so people really get hit
> over the head when using countries that don't yet have state
> information.
>
> Actually, I do have a file listing states for many
> countries. It's just a task for someone with a little time
> on their hands (say, 3-5 hours) to make those suitable for
> import into GNUmed. Anyone interested ? This isn't hard.
>
> Karsten