"The existing survey packages are far more sound a base then assessemnt as far as datamodel, basic APIs, and code."
Could you ellaborate why?
"I made a prototype of evolving assessment into embeddable forms so you can actually do what we really want it to do for user registration"
Could you commit this work so we can see how to make assessment work this way? Furthermore, why didn't you use a callback that will hook into contacts if you want to have additional user data? Nothing easier than that, probably a day of work to get it clean.
"Invest your time in polishing the dyanamic data types for the content repository."
Two different intentions. Assessment is supposed to be a general tool for doing assessments, not for arbitrarily extending the CR. Obviously if such a method would exist, we could slim down the code in Assessment, but it is not there.
"As a way to give online test perhaps (though there are scalability problems as you add many questions - it does 4 queries per question)."
This is due to the fact that you have a large flexibilty when it comes down to the presentation of questions and a lot of ways to reuse them. Thats why we usually do heavy cashing :). But improvement and feedback would be highly appreciated.
"Would an organization using .LRN or the current survey be happy if they upgraded and got all these new features or would they suddenly have software that is more complex then they need?"
Provide a simple and "advanced" interface for it. Should not be too hard, after all assessment already has multiple interfaces to work with.
