Re: Fwd: Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed brochures (was When will GNUmed be ready)

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:33:32PM +1100, Richard wrote:

> > The Gnumed project development cycle could be likened to one of the
> > modern "agile" software development methodologies
> Wrong.
> 
> This is not what has happened in gnuMed. There has never been an agreement on 
> a conceptual prototype, with an agreement as to how it would look and 
> function at a single point in time.
> 
>  It has arison ad-hoc, as those capable of the coding have put it together. 
> Some of my original medical records program was used as some of the ideas, 
This is accurate.

> but not implemented in the functional way they were intended,
Probably because of lack of coding skills/manpower.

> hence the result is less than functional,
Less functional than what you have, for your workflow, yes.

It is definitely not less than functional for other
workflows. Asserting anything else speaks of intolerance.

> and worse than somthing much simpler.
If "much simpler" means "simplified to the point of
non-existance" (which would be the case would we not have
what we have now) then no.

Anyone has ever been free and encouraged to build another,
much simpler or much better or much more advanced frontend.

Karsten
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