Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Light manufacturing moduels....

2007-01-30 Thread Jeff Gerritsen
Charley, Sounds good to me at this point. I'll look into setting up a sourceforge project when the design document has something substantial in it. Jeff On Tuesday 30 January 2007 21:02, Charley Tiggs wrote: > We can start with Sourceforge for sure and then, if the core developers > of LSMB thi

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Light manufacturing moduels....

2007-01-30 Thread Jeff Gerritsen
Josh, A couple of reasons. MRP requests comes up once and a while on the SL list and many small businesses don't want to be overwhelmed by an ERP system. Secondly I have around 11 years of background in MRP - I felt an MRP module would round out LSMB quite well. Payroll has always been one of

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] LedgerSMB companion projects

2007-01-30 Thread Charley Tiggs
Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: >> And we still don't have a public demo up yet. > > The existence of a representative demo dataset is probably called for there. > None of the potential users I ever showed the public SQL-Ledger demos could > look past the nonsense entries in the public demo instances. It di

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Light manufacturing moduels....

2007-01-30 Thread Josh Berkus
Jeff, Is there a reason why you're drawn to ERP? I ask because there are a bunch of open source ERP projects already (Compiere, OpenBravo, etc.) but there are not really good time&billing or payroll tools. -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Light manufacturing moduels....

2007-01-30 Thread Charley Tiggs
We can start with Sourceforge for sure and then, if the core developers of LSMB think it's worth it, when they bring up their own versioning system, perhaps we can move it there? Charley Jeff Gerritsen wrote: > Charley, > Thanks for the input. > > I've found some manufacturing documentation

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] OSCON talks? Need to take action

2007-01-30 Thread Josh Berkus
Chris, > I am not too far away. It is approx 6 hrs by car for me and I have > friends in the Portland area. Well, please submit both of those, or something similar. I'm on the committee, so if you want me to review your submission before you send it it, I'm game. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Post

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] OSCON talks? Need to take action

2007-01-30 Thread Chris Travers
I am not too far away. It is approx 6 hrs by car for me and I have friends in the Portland area. On 1/30/07, Josh Berkus wrote: > All, > > I'd like to see someone submit a couple talks for OSCON on LedgerSMB. I > can think of two obvious ones: > > Introducing LedgerSMB: open source, web-based

[Ledger-smb-devel] OSCON talks? Need to take action

2007-01-30 Thread Josh Berkus
All, I'd like to see someone submit a couple talks for OSCON on LedgerSMB. I can think of two obvious ones: Introducing LedgerSMB: open source, web-based accounting and: LedgerSMB: securing a legacy perl database application I could do these, of course, but I'd rather have someone who's hac

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Self-documenting API Proposal

2007-01-30 Thread Chris Travers
On 1/30/07, Josh Berkus wrote: > Chris, > > > I think it is better to attach internal catalogs which maintain these > > functions. But that is more work for us and I am happy to reconsider > > http://www.pgfoundry.org/projects/newsysviews Interesting, but after reviewing the documentation, I don

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Self-documenting API Proposal

2007-01-30 Thread Josh Berkus
Chris, > I think it is better to attach internal catalogs which maintain these > functions. But that is more work for us and I am happy to reconsider http://www.pgfoundry.org/projects/newsysviews -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Self-documenting API Proposal

2007-01-30 Thread Chris Travers
On 1/30/07, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > I can get argument types out, but not argument names. > > Eh? Why not? I mean you can't get funciton names out of sql function declarations unless you enforce some coding standards which may cause unexpected results in places. Also in some languages, naming

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Self-documenting API Proposal

2007-01-30 Thread Josh Berkus
Chris, > He was talking about an approach to ORM. I am essentially talking > about the same thing but encapsulating it in the db where it can be > app-independant. Right. This is David Fetter's idea, actually one he implemented for a game company. It consisted of the simple idea of a met

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Self-documenting API Proposal

2007-01-30 Thread Chris Travers
On 1/29/07, Jeff Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Chris Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After thinking a great deal about Josh Berkus's suggestion that we use > > a text file with some sort of self-documenting API capabilities. > > Did that mean the documentation of the 90% stored