[schooltool-dev] EuroPython thoughts

[Jason Straw]

Tom Hoffman wrote:
> I've put a few things that I want to work on at EuroPython in Malone
> tagged with ep07, but I'll outline my thinking in more detail here.
> Unfortunately, almost all this stuff will require some additional
> discussion and prioritization in Vilnius.
>
> * Easy ones: get the better Zonki graphics into SchoolTool, update the
> font next to the logo, new favicon.
>
+1
> * Make the dashboard the default view when a user clicks on
> "SchoolTool" or her name.  Disable the pop-up dashboard tag.
-1
>
> * Require a click to activate the drop down menus.
>
I don't care, I know you have a very strong position on this, but I
don't mind it.
> * Rip some things out that don't work.  Commendation shouldn't be in
> the release; it is just an example for developers.  Perhaps attendance
> and gradebook should be ripped out and Ignas's journal used instead.
> We'll have to discuss this.
+1 +++++++++ please!
>
> * I would like to streamline section creation if possible.  I think we
> could probably do it without changing the underlying object.  The main
> problem is that asking for an id, description, and code(iirc) before
> creating a section is pointless and confusing.
This is the point of the dashboard.