Re: Goodies tracker for FOSDEM

Hello Ray,

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 11:06 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> wrote:

> On 04/09/18 10:54, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
>
>> On 04/09/18 10:23, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> as you might know, we are present at FOSDEM every year, and we sell a
>>> number items during the two days. Over the past few years, we constantly
>>> ran out of certain articles (plush elephants, t-shirts ect), and last year
>>> FOSDEM had a nice tracker which shows how many items they sold and what is
>>> available. Including nice and shiny graphs of what was sold, and when, and
>>> how much.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately the software uses PHP and MySQL:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/FOSDEM/frontdesk-t-shirt_tracker <
>>> https://github.com/FOSDEM/frontdesk-t-shirt_tracker>
>>>
>>> Does someone wants to take a shot at this, and see if this can be ported
>>> to PostgreSQL? Or develop a similar system which we can use at next year's
>>> FOSDEM?
>>>
>>
> Hello Andreas,
>
> I've ported across all the MySQL stuff which I could find in the code.
>
> I'm not in a position to do much testing - it's not clear to me how it's
> all supposed to work (for example, while there's code to handle user
> registration I can't find it being called from anywhere!). However, I have
> it running insofar as I can under Apache on my laptop.
>
> What should I do now? Should I push my changes back to the Github
> repository (it's all on a separate branch)? - or shall I just send you a
> tarball?
>

Sweet! And quick!

Can you fork the original repository, and commit your changes there? So
anyone can join with future updates?

Thank you!

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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors
Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project