[Leica] themes

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

I don't have time to make any changes to the contest software anytime soon. 
It's working well; it's stable, and it does something that people 
understand. I'm very reluctant to start mucking with the insides of the code 
until I'm sure I'd have a free month or two, which probably won't be until 
summer 2007.

To produce the contest mechanism, I started with an off-the-shelf software 
package (Gallery 2), learned how it works, and made a number of 
modifications to it to support a contest like this. When a programmer makes 
modifications to an existing system, testing is very important; I actually 
spent more time testing the code than I did modifying it in the first place.



> Have you given any consideration to perhaps expanding the star system for 
> the judges or expanding the mechanism for comment into
> threads to stimulate interest/discussion? I don't know if either idea is 
> feasible or practical.