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kofi1995 / BetterSIS

A complete Students Information System (SIS) web application written in PHP.

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Project requirements,design, roadmap and legal #1

Open yaaminu opened 7 years ago

yaaminu commented 7 years ago

@kofikwarteng currently it's not clear exactly what the requirements, design architecture of this project is.

Few unanswered questions

Requirements

What exactly do we seek to do? is it a school management system ready to be used by non-devs or consumers need to have programming knowledge or both?

Design

If devs can be end users, how extensible are we going to make the system? will they have the choice of choosing their own database, caching, static files, authentication, etc implementation?
what are the default solutions and tools(database, caching, authentication) should we go for?
support for plugins without touching code itself?

Roadmap

What is the time frame for the project?
Documentations?

Legal

How are we going to protect the project legally ( license, patents ,etc)
We must be reminded that the kind of license we choose can affect the kind of libraries we can use

kofi1995 commented 7 years ago

The framework we are using is under MIT so we can probably go the MIT route, what do you think about that?

yaaminu commented 7 years ago

I suggest we go GPL. so if you want to distribute your solution, you must share it with the community.

yaaminu commented 7 years ago

It's not a good idea to license such a system with MIT.