[dev] Hermes enhancement

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Wed Sep 19 09:57:15 UTC 2007


Zitat von Manilal Krishnapillai <manilal.krishnapillai at ejyothi.com>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> Zitat von Manilal Krishnapillai <manilal.krishnapillai at ejyothi.com>:
>>
>>>     We have recently started using Hermes for tracking the timesheets
>>> of employees and contractors. The application seems to be stable and
>>> simple. But it lack some of the features that we may require for legal
>>> reasons. We have made a close analysis of the existing application and
>>> finally came up with some enhancements. Basically our aim is to add
>>> features so that the application will completely conform with
>>> DCAA(Defense Contract Audit Agency) guidelines without losing any of
>>> the existing functionality/feature. We can engage a couple of
>>> qualified developers to continue the development of hermes to make it
>>> enterprise ready. It may be nice if commit access is provided to our
>>> developers, so that we can develop and collaborate effectively.
>>> However all the minute details will be communicated to this mailing
>>> list, and thus community collaboration is assured.
>>
>> Your ideas for Hermes sound great and would be a great contribution. I
>> don't see any of these colliding with current usage scenarios or
>> planned features.
>>
>> Your developers can get CVS access to the Hermes module at some point
>> to make the development easier. But since we don't know any of you so
>> far, we would like you to contribute a few patches first, just like
>> any developer that starts working on the Horde code:
>> http://www.horde.org/source/contribute.php. This is especially
>> important because many people are already using Hermes in production,
>> like you do.
>>
>> Jan.
>>
>
> Thanks, this makes sense. We are going to do a detailed analysis of
> the existing hermes source code and will prepare a complete
> enhancement list in http://bugs.horde.org. We are planning to use
> horde-3.2-alpha and the latest version of Hermes from CVS.
>
> Even though we have experience in implementing Horde applications, we
> are relatively new in Horde development. So we expect guidance and
> inputs from all the developers here.

Sure, just go ahead and ask. And make sure to prepare only small  
patches for single enhancements and features. That's easier to follow  
then.

Jan.

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