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World Catalog of Ants
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Core database needs to be available for public download. #7

Closed foozleface closed 9 years ago

foozleface commented 9 years ago

This codebase isn't much use to anyone without the data....

sblum commented 9 years ago

meaning the data needs to be downloadable? I don't thing the this code or the actual table structure would be easily useful to most people. We need simple, easily understandable models for the basic classes.

foozleface commented 9 years ago

If someone wants to trace through this code to see how we're doing what we do, they'll want to be able to run against a database of some sort. Without a database - even an outdated one - it isn't possible to run any of this code. Most programmers run and trace code to see how things work; reading gives only a cursory understanding of the mechanics.

So it kind of boils down to - what is the goal of making the source available?

sblum commented 9 years ago

Meeting expressed obligations of the proposal (to some degree, SOP, even if it's somewhat meaningless. Before we make DB snapshots available we should get permission from Barry.

From: foozleface notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com> Reply-To: calacademy/antcat reply@reply.github.com<mailto:reply@reply.github.com> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 6:16 PM To: calacademy/antcat antcat@noreply.github.com<mailto:antcat@noreply.github.com> Cc: Stanley Blum sblum@calacademy.org<mailto:sblum@calacademy.org> Subject: Re: [antcat] Core database needs to be available for public download. (#7)

If someone wants to trace through this code to see how we're doing what we do, they'll want to be able to run against a database of some sort. Without a database - even an outdated one - it isn't possible to run any of this code. Most programmers run and trace code to see how things work; reading gives only a cursory understanding of the mechanics.

So it kind of boils down to - what is the goal of making the source available?

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foozleface commented 9 years ago

Makes sense.