Doubling up of effort

[globalcitizen]

Hi there, I have been maintaining php-iban at https://github.com/globalcitizen/php-iban for years. Much of the effort is in normalizing, error-correcting and updating the registry as published by SWIFT. It appears you guys are doing this too. Perhaps we should combine efforts?

My approach to the problem space was to create a new, normalized text file holding the corrected registry information. This is available at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/globalcitizen/php-iban/master/registry.txt and offers as many features as I could claw out of the data.

Perhaps you may wish to use that, or we could pull that out in to a new project and collaborate on that?

I'm sure it would increase the overall efficiency of updates and the greater userbase would provide increased responsiveness. In the past I have found that often I only become aware of issues when real world users get in touch.

One idea that I have in the pipeline, which may be worth bearing in mind here, is support for non-standard or unofficial IBAN codes. For instance, someone contacted me recently about the Ukraine - I'm pretty sure they have no official code as it's not listed in either the text or PDF versions of the registry, though perhaps something is currently in use. It wouldn't surprise me, particularly given the political expedience of tying it to the Eurozone.

Let me know your thoughts...

[apeiros]

Hi @globalcitizen
Thanks for the suggestion. Combining our efforts sounds great to me. Any place where we can IM? I can offer Skype, IRC and iMessage - you can mail me contacts to contact@apeiros.me (I would have mailed you mine, but I see no mail address on your profile)

[globalcitizen]

We can IM but I'm about to hit an island with no connectivity for a week ... so writing here may be easier for now. If you'd prefer email, my email is in firstname @ lastna . me format.

[globalcitizen]

OK I'm back online.