Roadmap for MLS ? Open Sourcing MLS ?

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atticusewig
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Roadmap for MLS ? Open Sourcing MLS ?

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Post by atticusewig »

I've noticed that for a lot of Open-Source Projects,
the developers have released a roadmap of the
goals of features and fixes that are being worked
on, and approximate dates to reach these goals.

Any chance that such a roadmap for MLS or other
projects will make it onto ldstech.org ?

Also, is there any truth to the rumor that MLS
will be open-sourced either fully or partially -
i.e. the transmission or encryption parts being
left obscured, but everything else opened up ?

If open-sourced, perhaps major point versions
could be worked on by the main development
for the major fixes or feature-adds, while the
community produces minor point releases that
include fixes for things that aren't deemed so
critical by the Utah team. Of course, a roadmap
could help prevent overlap, and since everything
is open-source, any improvements made by the
community minor point revisions could be rolled
into the major point revisions that would be sent
to the units.

Thanks,
Atticus Ewig
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Post by WelchTC »

atticusewig wrote:I've noticed that for a lot of Open-Source Projects,
the developers have released a roadmap of the
goals of features and fixes that are being worked
on, and approximate dates to reach these goals.

Any chance that such a roadmap for MLS or other
projects will make it onto ldstech.org ?
I can't promise which projects will have road maps but that is our intent. I'll certainly talk with the MLS team about posting their roadmap.
Also, is there any truth to the rumor that MLS
will be open-sourced either fully or partially -
i.e. the transmission or encryption parts being
left obscured, but everything else opened up ?
I think that it is a rumor and not something currently being discussed.

Tom
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Post by Moroni-p40 »

Open source MLS would be awesome.

My bishopric would like a visual layout of the ward, currently they put it on a white board, but they have expressed that it would be nice if we could have the computer print out the visual (bird's-eye view) of the ward. You could also click on the house and it would jump you to that person’s household record. (When on the computer)

This is a feature I could add if MLS was open ;)
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Post by thedqs »

Since the rest of this thread dealt with mapping the ward members to a google or yahoo map, I moved it over to the suggestions page. [thread="179"]Which you can access here.[/thread]

Thanks to Atticus for pointing this out.
- David
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