[Babase] Next five weeks

Catherine Markham babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:42:48 -0400


Talking tomorrow (Thursday) at 1 sounds good to me.

Catherine


Susan Alberts wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Karl and I made some plans about the next five weeks, which is the 
> period in which the conversion wil be completed. This is an update.
>
> We will have a conference call tomorrow Thursday Apr 14 to discuss 
> various aspects of this. Jeanne and I can do 1 pm East coast time. 
> Karl with this work for you? Leah and Catherine any problems?
>
> The major conversion issues are the interpolation and the reproductive 
> tables. All the rest is fairly small stuff. Karl needs to spend the 
> next week catching up on personal and other business. Then  he will 
> come back to the interpolation on the 19th of April. He estimates that 
> it should take another week to finish the interpolation.
>
> So:
> 1. karl works on interpolation (in Chicago) from 19 to 25 April.
>
> 2. On 25 April we have another conference call to get an update and to 
> discuss his starting the reproductive tables.
>
> 3. Karl will work on reproductive tables from 25 Apr to 1 May, at 
> which point they should be done.
>
> 4. Karl will come to Duke on 2 May and will stay through 18 May. 
> During this period the data conversion will get completed and 
> hopefully all the program conversion will happen also. This will be an 
> intensive time, as there will be a lot of error checking and 
> correcting stuff.
>
> Concommitant with Karl's programming work, the rest of us need to be 
> reviewing the rules that he is encoding. These rules will eventually 
> be written in the documentation, and ideally we would have done the 
> documentation/planning first (but this is hindsight). instead, Karl 
> will send us instructions for how to extract the rules from the code 
> itself (they are inserted as comments, and these comments will form 
> the backbone of the documentation eventually). Leah and Susan will go 
> over the tables one by one, and send comments on the Jeanne and 
> Catherine for comments. The faster we get this done, the better. This 
> won't prevent us from having to rethink and deal with errors but it 
> will be a first step and will icnrease Karl's efficiency.
>
> Also regarding documentation, Anne Hubbard in Chicago will start 
> working again on the documentation this Friday. Her plan is to 
> complete the conversion to docbook by the time I leave for Kenya. We 
> will check in after a week (around Apr 27) to see how it is going for 
> her.
>
> Please confirm that a conference call tomorrow will work for you.
>
> Susan



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Catherine Markham
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University
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