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Planning, discussion and review of technical work for the Grand Comics Database primarily takes place on the gcd-tech mailing list.

Technical Details

• Technical Volunteer Requirements (learn what's involved in doing tech work for the GCD!)
• Web Site Project Page
• Software
  • Developer's-Guide-to-the-Code
  • Development-Environment
• Database
  • the django-models are the ground truth of the database schema, the following graph shows the core database objects (Feb 2024)
    Core Schema: Full Schema:
  • Old Schema Description (from Feb 2010, still the best description we have)
  • Old New Schema Description (intended New Schema from 2010)

Large Project List

These are the really big things we'd like to work on in the next few years. Some are already underway. Others may not start for a year or more.

REST API with DRF

This will use Django Rest Framework 2.x and start out with a basic read-only API for accessing the same public data that is provided in the SQL dumps.

UI Revamp

The UI needs a revamp. The my.comics.org project is already using Bootstrap for the UI, and we are investigating to do the same with the main site. Other front-end technologies may be endorsed as well as we flesh out this project.