Gordon Newman
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.05.14 11:04:00 -
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A link to your web site?
https://element-43.com We're a completely open, neutral open source project.
What will SSO do for your sites users? For example beyond user management does your site have a commenting system?
SSO would greatly simplify the whole registration/activation/password recovery process for our ~600 users. We could also verify corporation/alliance membership which would enable us to finally add some proper management tools for corps and alliances. On top of that SSO would nicely integrate into our existing REST API allowing us to create private read/write API endpoints providing access to aggregated personal market data (watchlist, shopping list...), industry project status reports, notifications...
How many developers are working on your site
Currently I am maintaining the project on my own, which is a little sad - there are 2-3 more or less active developers who have contributed code in the past.
I'd really love to have more devs working on the project again. It's a shame that I have to dedicate most of the time I'm spending on element43 to maintenance work like managing the servers, updating the SDE and static assets or optimizing backend code - that's stuff most users won't notice. Since large parts of the boilerplate code required for an universal 3rd party EVE web application (market data consumer, full SDE import scripts and their ORM models, fronted layout, basic REST API, registration/authentication, API key management, lots of market data views, asynchronous EVE API import and error handling code etc.) have already been written, the whole thing is just waiting for someone to add features to it. So if you're reading this and you are a developer, please consider contributing to element43. I have written a tutorial and automated setup script for a dev environment for you.
We offer secure hosting, documentation, probably the largest EVE market data database in the world and a solid codebase which allows you to add new features very fast. I don't really know what else one could offer as an open 3rd party EVE tool today.
Sorry for that rant - it just saddens me that progress has been so slow in the past year, even though it would be so simple to add a wealth of features for our users if we just had 2-3 more active devs.
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