Saturday, August 25, 2018

A jobs database for free software

I discovered https://www.fossjobs.net where we should post our job offers. One thing is that we probably need to reformulate our job offers. They have an intersting classification of the different responsibilities:

  • Administrators x

  • Writers & Editors x

  • Marketing & Sales x

  • Managers x

  • Testers x

  • Consultants x Belgium

The follwing categories are probably less urgent for us:

  • Designers

  • Programmers

  • Researchers

  • Translators

  • Support

Balance and result sheets continued

Most of my yesterday thoughts about how to implement balance sheets are invalid. Here is a new version of my plans.

We rename accounts.AccountTypes to sheets.CommonItems and add a database model sheets.Item and a system with a method per choice get_object() to retrieve the Item object corresponding to a CommonItem (same system as we have already for CommonAccounts). Group.account_type and Account.type (currently AccountTypes fields) will become injected pointers to sheets.Item. accounts.AccountGroup will be renamed to sheets.ItemGroup. references to Account.group will be replaced by Account.sheet_item.group

The lino_xl.lib.sheets plugin defines three models (Item, Sheet and Entry) and three choicelists (CommonItems, EntryType and SheetType).

Not yet sure whether sheets should be vouchers or not. That’s not relevant at the moment.

Not yet sure whether we should continue to use groups or rather a hierarchized reference. I tend to remove them because a hierarchical reference is more intuitive to use and maintain.

Item(Referrable)
  ref
  designation
  common_item
  mirror_item
  sheet_type

Entry(Model):
  sheet
  item
  group
  entry_type

Sheet(PeriodRange, UserAuthored)
  date_published

CommonItem(ChoiceList):
EntryType(ChoiceList):
  ('heading', 'value', and 'sum')

SheetType(ChoiceList):
  ('balance' and 'result')