[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
Phone: (609) 258-6898
Fax: (609) 258-2712