[Babase] Rankdate Changes in Babase

Jeanne Altmann altj at princeton.edu
Tue Mar 23 19:26:44 EDT 2010


Thanks!
We can now pursue the residual rankdate problems. Reminder that Niki's
querying will be from 2000 through 2007 (or 2008a) for now with 2008
happening as soon as those ranks are in.
jeanne 

-----Original Message-----
From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu
[mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu] On Behalf Of Karl O.
Pinc
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 4:56 PM
To: The Baboon Database Project
Subject: Re: [Babase] Rankdate Changes in Babase

On 03/23/2010 12:13:39 PM, Lacey Maryott Roerish wrote:
> Ok, all Rankdates are rolled back to the first of the month, and all 
> MALE maturedates are rolled back to the first! yay!
> 
> So are the next steps (for now)
> (1) Niki continues to run the queries for Laurence and we see what 
> errors we still end up with.
> (2) Solidify Rules With Susan for Males having MCE after age 4 even if

> that means prior to matdate
> (3) Once rules are established and enforced, make sure all male MCE's 
> are falling after the decided point, fix all that aren't?
> 
> does that cover it?

We need to go over the rules in the documentation and make sure that
they make sense.  It's not enough to look at the MATUREDATES table
documentation become some of the maturity rules are documented in other
tables.  E.g. the MCE rules are in INTERACT_DATA.

(It's bad enough having to have the rules in multiple places in the code
and keeping everything consistent.  It makes the most sense to have the
rules in one place in the documentation, i.e.
either on the MATUREDATES table or on INTERACT_DATA, so that there's no
way the documentation can be inconsistent and our intent confused.)

So the best way is probably to call up the entire document as one big
page, as Susan prefers, and use the browser's search function.  Is this
something we should do in a conference call or should 1 person do it?


Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein


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