Re: Category Object Model

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> Read this when you have some spare minutes, but before our Tuesday IRC
> meeting.

More like spare hours. :)

[snip changes to site structure]

The only concern I have is how the URL's will change.  I can probably work
around whatever you do, but I will need to know to do the drill down.
 
> I know you'll have questions - lets go over them at the next irc meet
> (Tuesday).
> 
> 
> In addition to everything I've covered above, I will be fully fullfilling
> my role as "fearless" leader of the project as Aaron dubbed it ages ago
> :).  I'll be increasing my availability over the next 2 months to 4 nights
> a week for IRC discussions, etc.  However you guys need me.  I know you'll
> have frequent questions moving forward now that everything is in full
> swing.  My coding time will increase significantly after tomorrow... these
> last 2 weeks have been very busy.

Sounds great.  I'm available at least 2 nights a week myself and often
Sunday afternoons.
 
> Also, in order to get my arms entirely around everything thats going on so
> as to better coordinate activities, I'd like to extend the offer of a
> one-on-one chat session to each of you managing a project.  I know people
> are headed in all sorts of directions, but I need a firm understanding of
> all of those directions so I can lay the groundwork for you, including any
> additional table structures, etc.  Things such as the Q&A article entry
> system Daniel is working on.  These things can progress much faster if I
> know about them in detail.  I don't want people to feel confined to the
> existing table structure and try to work around it.  Where modifications
> need to be made to support what your trying to impliment I will make them.  

Let me know if there's anything you need to know about my stuff.  It
sounds like the changes will make the htdig modifications unnecessary;
hence I'd like to start working on the biz finder which will need a few
(simple) tables.

> I had slated go-live not so long ago for 3rd week of July, and I believe
> that if we really ramp up we can have something to show by then.  In case
> you haven't heard, I have secured the aquisition of an additional server
> for the cause which will allow us to spread the delivery/DB load across
> the (now) two servers.  

I'd like to comment on this a bit more.  About a month ago, I was
contacted by VA regarding the expected go-live of the site.  My earlier
predictions of how long it would take us turned to be *way* off and due to
this error on my part, VA was 'concerned'.  There was some talk of us
losing the current box.  It never got really serious, but it concerned
Jason and I enough that we felt it was prudent to procure a second box.  
I showed VA a demo of the site, and all is fine again.  But, as it turns
out, we made like bandits and got a really sweet server, so we decided not
to look a gift horse in the mouth. :)

So now we need to figure out how to split the services between the two
boxes.  There are worse problems to have.
 
> So gather up all your questions for our next meeting and think about when
> you'll be available to hit it off with me one-on-one.  I'll do the
> irc-logs for those and ship them off to Aaron or whoever (unless someone
> tells me how to post 'em) to be posted.

Check out devel, cp the log to ./irc/ and edit the index.html file.
Simple as eating mom's apple pie.

>  Then I can begine to better
> direct the efforts which will be increasingly important as more developers
> begin to join.

Sounds good.

> I have much to discuss on how to handle an increase in developers at the
> next meeting as well, so please prepare to discuss your views on that as
> well.

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