On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Ronald Wertlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS Sorry about any confusion from the last post (bit rushed). More > clarity/info on my blog... > > http://ekhayaict.com/wordpress/?p=78
Hi Ronald, I flat out missed this email, and I still can't find your "last post." So sorry for the slow response. I don't think there is much we can do at this point. For better or worse we are tied to Zope 3, and our codebase is rather abstract and sophisticated. SchoolTool started with very ambitious objectives to create an extensible, i18n and L10n-able framework for schools around the world. This is enterprise software. The problem is that right now the value proposition for a project like Janastu to use SchoolTool is at a low point. The codebase is complex, individual components work and are being tested and used in a handful of schools, but we are still in the process of pulling this together into a coherent suite. So for web developers without heavy object oriented and component design experience, getting up to speed on SchoolTool is a big step for an uncertain benefit. It is also an uncertain benefit on our side. We have a pair of developers. If they're spending time on IRC the next six months trying to tutor programmers on the fine points of ZCML, they aren't finishing SchoolTool 1.0 beta (due in October). There is a long term plan for solving this problem. First off, more complete releases of SchoolTool make its value more certain. Secondly, I'm hoping Grok 1.0 http://grok.zope.org/) and SchoolTool 1.0 come out around the same time (i.e., next April), and we'll be able to start leveraging the ease of development Grok brings to Zope 3 for people looking to extend and modify SchoolTool. In the meantime, however, our priority is to keep our heads down and finish SchoolTool. Having said all that, I'm always happy to offer advice and feedback to any open source SIS or MIS project. --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
