RE: This is not the beginning of the end...

Juho wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 06:53:28PM +0200, Jerome Quelin wrote:
> > PGAS (Perl Golf Administration System - did you know it?) still needs a
> > little care - in order to create the hole in the database, set up the
rules,
> > update the test script, modify the status of an entry... That's neither
very
> > difficult, nor very time-consuming, but it has to be done.
>
> It seems to me that adding web interfaces for these features would
> make more sense than adding more PGAS guys. Would this be just a
> simple matter of programming, or are there some difficult/impossible
> problems in doing that?

It would be difficult, but not impossible (c'mon this is Perl! nothing's
impossible :-).  The difficulty would be that write access to the database
would be opened up to the web, meaning that the interface would need some
security.  And I don't have the time or interest to develop that right now.

And it would still require more pgas-men, because Jerome or I would need to
be around during the tournament to set it up, fix mis-marked solutions and
post updates.  Ideally, one of the referees would be a pgas-man, and this is
why we're calling for some respected golfers to volunteer (thank you to
Michael Thelen and Eugene for so quickly stepping forward).

--Dave