Re: [Gnumed-devel] demographics & identity (was: describing use cases)

[Karsten Hilbert]

> 1) develop use cases & decide how we want the functions to "work"
For the second part a very important consideration to keep in
mind (and link to at the appropriate place) are Richard's
design documents. He already has detailed and extensive
descriptions written up on how he wants those function points
to be done UI wise

> a) very useful
> b) useful in some situations, without impeding general usability
> c) useful to some people but the implementation would give grief to others
> 
> a) should, & probably will, be implemented, but not all at once
> - anyone is welcome & encouraged to implement any & all parts
- develop in test_area, announce and keep pushing

> - these parts would all eventually go into the main trunk
yes

> b) anyone who *really* wants to get this done is welcome to
> - it may just be their passion of theirs, or vital to their use case
> - it may not help others until later if ever, but it is up to the developer
> - if it does not *interfere* with anything, just extends it,
>    it will be welcome into the main trunk??
yes

> c) like (b), and can be developed in test-area, but should *not* go into
>     the main trunk or should only go into some clearly identified subfolder
>     in which optional widgets can be kept, and activated at the level of
>     an individual gnumed *installation*, perhaps to replace default
>     widgets. Kind of like the {richard-space, horst-space} choice.
If it can be made to not interfere with a) or b) it will
likely be accepted into the main trunk, too.

> I drafted the above only because I cannot recall any description of 
> how a demographic widget might work other than the "x# of characters 
> from the surname, firstname" discussions. So maybe I am missing 
> something, unless people think it a worthy point in time to now 
> *compile* ideas on what would be desirable/useful.
Surely so.

> It is certainly of interest to me because I hope by May-June to have 
> someone local look at where gnumed is at, and identify for me how I 
> might effectively hire them to contribute code. Maybe I am 
> unrealistic but if it proves possible for me to push functional 
> requirement questions ahead of where things are at (to try to help 
> get 0.1 "done" at least to the extent that I could use it in the 
> clinic) it might stimulate more people's helpful suggestions and 
> encourage as-yet unmade decisions for 0.1?
Personally, I think what you are doing here is invaluable.

> PS Would 1,2,3 a b c be worth wiki-ing i.e. would it help lurkers & 
> new people identify *how* their needs might "fit" inside gnumed?
Yes.

Karsten
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