RE: Brainstorming Gridcoinstats Ideas Thread [25 SBD in Bounty]
I do understand your wish for this, but let me point out...
that's open source because it's a basic part of creating standards.
I'm not creating a standard. I'm creating a service. I have no intention of generating a standard for something as I'm not the maker of such standard.
a) only make the basics available...
The basics are pretty basics for anyone to create by their own. I see no need in open-sourcing a project that is just a small script.
Look at Google, how many dozens of clones have been created using Chromium; same could be said with FireFox's open source base.
You're really overselling this. Google is big, not because they have open-sourced Chromium, but because they do so much. Some open-sourced projects are not going to tip them over. They have big moneybag companies behind them, and if the company starts to lose money these projects are the first to be dropped by them. This is one project, a personal and my biggest project thus far. I have no intention to stop expanding it and support it with more features, but it takes time, effort and money from my part.
Besides, more isn't merrier. Can't see how a dozen more clones could make it better. Either it should be all, or nothing. Why release an open-source project that is just a fraction of what we have? It would result in confusion because there will be many clones running with various degrees of services or lack of service.
Sorry, I will not Open-Source it, end of story
Clearly it's not, otherwise there would be others out there already. I've asked multiple times over the last two months for anything that has the ability to let me know how to migrate some of the blockchain to SQL so I can have some fun exploring it. You know how many takers there have been on providing advice? One; 1! That one person said go find an open source block-chain explorer. I've spent hours trying to figure out how to port stuff over from other blockchains without success; 1) because I'm not a techie and 2) because things are often written with Linux instructions so it's a challenge to figure out how to move it over to WAMP.
And therein lives the challenge: people like you are very talented, and basic building blocks help those that are looking to learn more to be able to start out. It's rather unfortunate that more people don't see it that way. I'm very strong in SQL and structured data; getting something from JSON or whatever the hell our blockchain is stored in - that's a completely different battle. I suspect there are many people like that that have strong suits in certain places too and would benefit greatly from examples that are able to help them. The same challenge exist with GRC in general right now when it comes to trying to modify the UI with QT maker, etc.. So unfortunate...
@cm-steem (customminer) has made some open-source scripts that you can check out surrounding scraping the Gridcoin wallet.
https://github.com/grctest/GRC-Haskell
Got Choco NuGet, Jq, and Haskell installed. Cloned the repo. And trying to follow the instructions, but running into various compiling errors - just like GRC/Qt .
I'll post to the GitHub if I don't figure out what dependences are required because I think that's it.
Thank you for the suggestion.