[schooltool-dev] Merging of srichter's hierarchical term branch into trunk

[Tom Hoffman]

I think it is necessary, and now is better than later.

--Tom

On 9/18/07, Ignas Mikalajunas <ignas.mikalajunas at gmail.com> wrote:
>   Hello, I have looked at the srichter-term-gradebook-work2 branch,
> and tried merging it into trunk. It is doable, and would save me at
> least some time as it has school year objects that i can reuse doing
> school-year transition implemented. The downside of this is the
> disruptivness of the code that is in that branch:
>
> It will probably break CanDo.
> It will invalidate quite a lot of gradebook work that jelkners
> students just did. As the branch contains a lot of changes to the
> gradebook. A lot of srichter's changes are related to grading periods.
> It will surely break jacqmain plugin.
> It will surely break lyceum plugin. (though i can handle that)
> Keeping databases backwards compatible will be difficult, as
> converting a flat list of terms into a hierarchy of school-years is
> something that can't be done automatically in a reliable manner.
> And it might negatively impact stability of the upcoming release.
>
> On the other hand - if we won't do it now, it will only get more
> difficult in the future. Especially if i will start working on a
> different school-year functionality.
>
> I know I can survive the impact, all i will have to do is update
> lyceum import scripts, and some gradebook code, which is not being
> used at this very moment, so i won't have any data to migrate. Thus
> it's mostly whether you want me to perform the merge, or not.
>
> Ignas
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