Guidelines for a GSOC project

[Vipin Nair]

Hi,

I am a student who have applied for a GSOC[1] project under Debian. As part of the project[2] that i have applied for,  we are required to a create a web interface to present data collected by the team metrics project[3]. 

The web interface will basically contain many charts and visualizations. I was wondering if it were a good idea to just fetch the data from the server and plot it in client side using Javascript?

The Debian Website Discussion page[4] on the wiki suggest that we avoid Javascript as much as possible. So i would love to get an opinion from the Debian Website team, on the use of Javascript. Thanks.

[1] : http://www.google-melange.com

[2] : http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2012/Projects#Improving_Debian_Team_Activity_Metrics

[3] : http://teammetrics.alioth.debian.org/

[4] : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWebsiteDiscussion#Step_1:_identify_needs

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Regards,
Vipin