>>> On 3/25/14, 3:55 PM, David Skinner wrote: >>>> Hey everyone, >>>> >>>> We have a platform written in PHP. Our company has outsourced development >>>> of a mobile app. .... >>>> >>>> Standing on my soap box here, I feel that we are being directed by them to >>>> change our system to make this little app work, where it seems it should be >>>> the other way around. They are our client. We are paying them. Why can't >>>> they use our API? Should they change their system to handle our system >>>> responses better? Especially ones that state the session is expired? At one >>>> point they literally responded via email that their app has "...no way to >>>> have the user go to the login screen in the app if the session expires". >>>> >>>> Surely changing our sessions to never expire can't be the right >>>> solution...? Am I missing something here? >>>> >>>> Does anyone have any thoughts on this? >>>> >>>> Any comment is much appreciated. :)
This sounds to me like an issue of dollars. They may have been paid a flat fee to do the project and now for them to make modifications to fix bugs the cost may come out of their pocket and that may be why they are pushing back. If they can avoid more dev time on the project, they preserve their profit margin. It could also be the person that did the work for them is not longer available to fix the bugs. This has the smell of politics and responsibility shifting to avoid the work. _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
