Re: Status Report & IRC Chat

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Micah K Yoder wrote:

> Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> > - Got 3 hours of sleep between Sat 10am and Sun 11pm.  Somehow I still
> >         made the IRC chat.
> 
> You're nuts!  Personally, I value sleep...... :-)

Yeah, I'm a sleep-aholic myself, but I figured I was morally obligated to
show up since I called the chat. :)
 
> > - Made significant improvements on developer tarball.  Need to code
> >         PHPMyAdmin install and do some testing.  Promised Micah I'll have
> >         it done by/on Wednesday.

Done early.  Expect some patches over the next few days to fix bugs as I
find them.

> That will be awesome.  I'm already hacking on some of the files, but i
> think I'll wait for the devel tarball to test them.  The object code
> I've put up there so far doesn't *quite* seem to be working and I'm not
> sure why not...  will be nice to have it locally to probe more.
> 
> > - Met with Jason, Daniel, and Micah on IRC Sunday morning.
> >         -> Decided to do an open alpha test stage.  Goal for this is Jan
> >                 1st.  Site will support people to search our mirrored
> >                 content.  User contributed content will likely be after
> >                 go live.
> >         -> Micah will do User Admin forms
> >         -> Daniel will work on article sub forms
> >         -> Jason will finish Objects code (1-2 weeks) and work on getting
> >                 mirrored content into SQL DB.
> >         -> Aaron will work on CmdSchedule, finish Search.pm, and convert
> >                 man.cgi (man page to html converter) to mod_perl.
> 
> This is essential to make this.  I know my part should be fairly quick
> and easy.  If I was totally up to speed on everything, it shouldn't take
> more than a few hours.  I guess the combination of the new way of doing
> things, other changes, lots to do at work, etc., took its toll on my
> availability and productivity.  I apologize, and I really *do* want to
> see this deadline made.

I know Dan, Jason, and me are really commited to make Jan 1st. reality.

> > Wade, Spencer, and Ilya, you guys didn't show up for the chat so we didn't
> > assign you any projects for the Jan 1st release.  This isn't to say that
> > we couldn't use your help, but we didn't want to commit you to anything
> > without you being there.  If you want to help, let us know, otherwise
> > we'll figure you're not interested.
> 
> If any of them want to work on usertools also, that might work out.

I'm sure Jason and I could find things for them too. :)  Or they can just
work on their existing projects.  It all needs to be done anyways, and the
alpha site will be rather minimal.

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