On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Sean Hunt<ride...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a reason I have intentionally avoided  trying to tie my > database in to anyone else's (say, the Registrar's). Doing so would > leave me reliant on another player's actions - for instance, a > deregistered player leaves all eir offices. I would be unable to publish > an incorrect IADoP report while I waited for the Registrar to ensure > everything was up to date. By tracking these things manually, I avoid > dependency on any other officer for my duties, and thus my errors are > mine and mine only.
Hmm... In theory, a monolithic automated system would avoid this. You could simply take over recordkeeping registrations/deregistrations while a new Registrar was being elected. If the person hosting it unexpectedly deregistered and disabled eir server, it might be relatively messy, but in theory it should be easy for someone else to make a copy. All this is still theory. The realities have yet to evolve, but I think the time is right, as the introduction of Cards seems like it might bring the economy back to the level of activity it had a year or so ago. Might. > (and I consider list-scraping programs to be such a terrible idea that I > do not want to admit the possibility) I think it's a good approach for scraping other officers' reports (themselves automatically generated). Do you disagree? -- -c.
