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xHeliotrope / redcap-wdc

REDCap Web Data Connector for Tableau
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Interested in Contributors? #7

Open james-geiger opened 4 years ago

james-geiger commented 4 years ago

Hi @xHeliotrope,

Just curious if you'd be interested in contributors/accepting PRs for this project? I've been working recently in REDCap/Tableau and have made some adjustments that may be beneficial to the project as a whole.

Let me know either way what your long-term plans are for maintenance.

xHeliotrope commented 4 years ago

Hey James,

Thanks for the issue. I think I've ended up in kind of weird spot for this, as I made this at a time when I was had access to a REDCap database and was doing development with it for a few groups at a University. As I'm no longer doing that in that role, its much more of a challenge to make any improvements or to keep this current, with either REDCap or Tableau. It could certainly use some improvements.

I'd be happy to accept pull requests. If there is anyone who is planning to do any of this type of development long term, it might also make sense to transfer ownership of the repository.

james-geiger commented 4 years ago

@xHeliotrope Thanks for the quick reply, Ryan!

I am in a position now where I will likely be doing more development with the REDCap to Tableau connection, and it appears the only other library also hasn't seen many recent updates.

As you've pointed out, working with REDCap is insular to those working in university environments (unfortunate, in my opinion, as I think development could be driven by otherwise "independent" developers).

I'd be happy to try and move the needle forward on the project, and will likely be doing this kind of work for at least the next few years. Up to you how you see your involvement. Let me know your thoughts.

xHeliotrope commented 4 years ago

I invited you as a collaborator. It will probably make more sense to transfer ownership of the repository to your account. The only thing I'd really like to do before I do that is to remove any of the original branding on the web page, and maybe make some minor updates elsewhere to make the node.js code a little more current.

Let me know if that sounds alright, and I'll start making those updates and then pull the trigger on transferring ownership.

Thanks!

james-geiger commented 4 years ago

@xHeliotrope Sounds great, thanks for the responsiveness! Makes sense to me, and should provide a good jumping-off point.