Re: Goodies tracker for FOSDEM

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 1:41 AM Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <ads(at)pgug(dot)de> wrote:

>
>
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 5:47 PM Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> wrote:
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>> On 08/09/18 16:30, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>> >
>> > Can you fork the original repository, and commit your changes there? So
>> > anyone can join with future updates?
>>
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> OK, I've done that now, and it's here:
>>
>> https://github.com/rayodonnell/frontdesk-t-shirt_tracker
>>
>> I've left my work on a branch named postgres-port; the master branch is
>> unchanged from the original for the moment.
>>
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> To follow up on this: we (Magnus and I) did look into the port before
> FOSDEM, and installed it on a system.
> Turns out that the configuration is all JSON, even the type and amount of
> items. Whoever wants to add or change the item list, needs to edit the JSON
> directly in the server.
> Registration code is included, but nowhere used - accounts, and hashed
> passwords, need to be created manually.
> On top of that, the actual output (the shiny graphs) is not included, and
> seems to be part of the FOSDEM website.
>

I think you missed one of the most important points -- selling things
didn't actually decrease the inventory... So there was no help in figuring
out when we were about to run out of stock.

At this point we decided to stop the experiment.
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> Sorry for the work you spent on porting it, Raymond. It's just not usable
> at this point.
>
>
Yeah, it was a good try, but didn't work out.

//Magnus