[Babase] Next five weeks
Susan Alberts
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:35:57 -0500
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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Susan Alberts, Associate Professor
Department of Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham NC 27708
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