Quote Originally Posted by Doc Holliday View Post
What I do want to know before we go forward on this and if its at all possible is can it be done without an absolute nightmare on the coding side @Trivaldi/Zoltan/NST because this is something that NEEDS to happen.

I have a ton of ideas about how to do it but need to know if its not all for nothing if it cant be implemented once the work is done.
We all have and had tons of ideas in the past. Sadly those have mostly been ignored or put on some imaginary list with random order that changes on random intervals. I won't put any more work into collecting and reporting issues before I don't get a clear cut answer if they will ever be worked on. No point filling up the brain port with more stuff. It's already a black hole and if you look into past threads that were made years ago you will probably find lots of your current ideas being talked about only to vanish into the void never to be seen again... just like this thread i dug up from a few years back. Just look at the date of the first post. There is no shortage of ideas... there rarely is. There is a shortage of man power to put them into place and a shortage of communication that puts those ideas on a road map on in the spot light. Same really goes for all but the most pressing bugs.

I know I'm utterly negative here but I don't get the feeling anything is really changing. The NST has it's hands full with their own stuff already. They are seemingly struggling to get some much needed infrastructure out of the door for what feels like years. I hope that with the advent of those tools we will see many issues resolved in a more timely fashion. What I don't see is any relevant time frame in which that will actually happen. Whenever you create something to help getting done some manual labor you need to think if the time spent on the automation will actually have an impact on the overall development. The NST clearly thinks so... and they really don't have much of a choice any more unless they want to throw away years of hard labor. I certainly wouldn't.