Vision (general)

A vision is essential to guarantee the success of a project. From a common vision flows the functionality of an application.

• First and foremost the result must be free/open software.
• This is a community effort, we all work together.
• The goal should always be to eliminate all manual effort on the part of the user
• Usability is key, if it's not easy to use, it doesn't work.
• Re-usability is important, do not reinvent the wheel and give back to the community.
• The code should be elegant (beautiful, flexible, generic, maintainable, robust etc.)
• The application should be completely usable with just the keyboard.
• The number of dialogs should be kept at a minimum.
• Every aspect should be configurable according to the wishes of the user.
• Wherever possible available open standards should be followed.
• It should be relatively easy to edit the underlying data manually without depending on the GUI (e.g. to correct things).