Yeah, sounds like it should be treated like a PHP Library, with a thin Drupal module to give it a menu router path and perhaps a permission.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Bob Hutchinson <[email protected]>wrote: > On 23/03/12 14:35, David Metzler wrote: > >> I'm in the process of deciding whether to host a project on Drupal.org. >> The project has to do with student assessment tracking for primary and >> secondary education. It is currently written in standalone php mode, but >> I'm seriously considering rewriting it as a module that would run under >> drupal. >> >> It is open source (GPL Version 2.0) so that is not a problem, but it >> doesn't fit the drupal project in a few key ways: >> >> 1. It is written to work with Postgres ONLY. This is because I'm >> leveraging stored procedures using plpgsql and views and other criteria, as >> well as leveraging postgres ability to generate XML from the database. >> 2. It uses Adobe Flex for its data entry forms. Not really interested >> in rewriting this portion of the code into java script, but this source is >> also GPL'd. >> 3. It's targeted towards k-12 school system and wouldn't really be >> useful to generic web sites. >> > > Sounds more like a project suitable for github. > > > >> I would likely be bundling a drupal open source distribution custom >> tailored for k-12 schools to use this system. I host 3 other projects that >> are normal contrib modules, so I'm quite familiar with project hosting >> requrements, porting strategies, etc. >> >> So with all that in mind, >> >> 1. Do people have an ideas/opinions on whether the custom module code >> should be hosted on drupal.org or on the distribution site? >> 2. Is there a process I should go through before hosting this module on >> durpal.org? (I already have GIT access for my other modules)? >> 2. Is there a process that I should go through before creating a custom >> distribution and hosting on another site? Trough the association? Through >> Drupal.org? >> >> Thanks in advance for any input. >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> > > -- > ----------------- > Bob Hutchinson > Midwales dot com > ----------------- >
