[Babase] babase schedule
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Sat Dec 17 14:13:06 EST 2005
HI all,
Karl and I just talked about the babase schedule for the next month,
here is an update.
Karl is currently working on the sexual cycles tables. By Dec 30, he
will have implemented the following tables:
Pregs, cycgaps. cycpoints, sexskins, repstats, cycstats, mdintervals
and mmintervals.
During this time (between now and Dec 30) we (the rest of the team)
should (a) make sure to read the sexual cycles tables documentation a
last time and provide any final feedback, and (b) READ THE
DOCUMENTATION FOR PARTS, INTERACT, AND THE PSION DATA. This is a new
task for us and Karl will send us an email shortly when he is ready
for us to go with this. We will get a copy to JA to read also.
Then he goes on holiday for a couple of days starting 31 Dec.
Between Jan 2 or 3 (when he gets back) and Jan 9 he will do the
programming for parts, interact and the Psion data. We need to have
finished commenting on the documentation for this by then.
The goal is to have the programming for parts, interact and psion
data finished by Jan 9. This represents the last "big" chunk of
conversionprogramming.
Beginning Jan 9 the plan is that Karl will come to Duke. Between then
and Jan 23 he will do the last bits of conversion so that we can go
live with the conversion on Dec 23, which is a MOnday. Karl will stay
at Duke until that Friday, Jan 27, working with us as we use the new
database and push it to see that it all works. He will also begin
working on the prgrams for maintaining the database during the period.
With respect to the programs for maintaining the database, Karl
pointed out that phppgadmin, the front end that we are using, has a
built=in utility that allows the user to upload csv files into a
database. The plan is that we will use this utility. Karl will need
to write programs that parse the data in the csv files into their
various database tables such as parts and interact. He told me that
this programming is, essentially, the same programming that is
required for writing views, and so writing views has actual utility
for maintaining the database as well as using it. The biggest hurdle
for data entry/uploading is the ranker program.
He and I will talk again on Weds before I leave for Christmas (on Thurs).
Please email back with any comments, questions or concerns.
Susan
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