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@@ -5,47 +5,18 @@ This is my internal assessment for the IB Diploma Programme's Computer Science by the IB, while the `docs` directory contains the documentation that I actually plan to distribute for the production system. -## Configuring, building and running +## Repository mirrors -1. Copy `docs/cca.scfg.example` to `cca.scfg` and edit it to taste. The - configuration file is well-documented. You probably need to add a client - secret, change some paths, and change some listening options. -2. `make` -3. `./cca` +* [Upstream repo](https://git.runxiyu.org/ykps/cca.git) +* [SourceHut mirror](https://git.sr.ht/~runxiyu/cca) +* [Codeberg mirror](https://codeberg.org/runxiyu/cca) +* [GitHub mirror](https://github.com/runxiyu/cca) -## Problems with the existing system +## Other links -There are various issues with Schoolsbuddy, the current system our school uses -for CCA registrations: +* [Issue tracker](https://todo.sr.ht/~runxiyu/cca) +* [Demo instance](https://dev.runxiyu.org) +* [Admin handbook](https://git.runxiyu.org/ykps/cca.git/plain/docs/admin_handbook.html) +* [IA cover page](https://git.runxiyu.org/ykps/cca.git/plain/iadocs/cover_page.htm) -* There are various race conditions and locking issues that occur when too many - students use the system at the same time. Course member caps are enforced by - kicking random users out of the system while over-filling some courses, - instead of having the course choice fail gracefully. The number of remaining - seats in each course is also not updated live. -* If a lot of people are trying to load the Schoolsbuddy page, it takes ages. -* The web interface is extremely bloated and contains more than 10 megabytes of - unnecessary JavaScript. -* The main interface displays three CCA periods, and inside each CCA period you - can choose between Monday/Wednesday and Tuesday/Thursday. That's a bit - unintuitive. -* It seems to only support authentication by PowerSchool single sign-on, which - is problematic because PowerSchool only supports a limited number of students - logging on at the same time. -* The selection system does not enforce CCA hours requirements, and the CCA - office's staff must manually verify that students have completed CCA choices - to the year group's requirements, by literally printing out the spreadsheet - to paper and reading through them. -* The school has to pay Schoolsbuddy a subscription fee, while something as - simple as CCA selection could be easily accomplished on cheap hardware and - minimal software. -## Key questions - -* How does the CCA staff enter available courses, teacher information, member - caps, and timing information into the system? Would it be okay if I just - accept a CSV spreadsheet? - Apparently they use the Schoolsbuddy web page to do so. I'd add a CSV upload - as that would be more convenient for most purposes. -* How do they get student choices out of the system and into PowerSchool? - It looks like they export an Excel sheet. See `docs/fields.txt`. |