[Dev-flock] status

[Lucy Mendel]

yo,

summary: Xplanner is updated; wiki and code documentation is
progressing; Monday meeting went great.

Did I tell you that xplanner has been updated? It has. Our goal this
iteration was to have a few focussed stories. I've consolidated
stories into Engines:
      http://whynoti.org:8080/xplanner/do/view/iteration?projectId=0&returnto=%2Fdo%2Fview%2Fprojects&oid=842

The phone stuff is hanging around in Specialized Technology, though
the request handling/information system will eventually move into the
engine code base.
      http://whynoti.org:8080/xplanner/do/view/iteration?projectId=0&returnto=%2Fdo%2Fview%2Fprojects&oid=1087

Nothing is in UI for now. The community page stuff is hanging out in
Community Information Platform. Last Monday Shaunalynn and I worked
out a concrete plan for community discussion in our site. We're adding
a new node type in addition to General, Product, Company and Source:
Community. Shaunalynn is working out the system, but to give ya'll an
idea of the kinds of Community nodes: Help, Voting Culture, Community
Discussion, etc. Each node is like a discussion forum, and each top
level review is a new topic.

Dan and I are working on the code cleanup; the more the merrier, since
a big part of code cleanup is improving overall team understanding of
the codebase, getting the status of modules documented and then
cleanup, standardize, remove cruft, and fix those modules.


I updated some wiki documentation on the database
     http://bilumi.org/trac/wiki/Database
as well as the epydocs
     http://bilumi.org/epydoc/

Big ups to Dan for getting the epydoc graphs (eg:
   http://www.thoughtandmemory.org/epydoc/hm.db.graph.Node-class.html
) to work and for being our number one in-code documenter. We could
still stand for more code documentation; in particular, the why's of a
class or module, and the input/output/usecase of methods. Let me know
if you have questions or suggestions.

I've also documented the phone stuff on the wiki, though the pydoc is
still to come. The wiki documentation does not reflect the current
status of the code (eit-- really should say something to that effect),
but I will check in as soon as possible.
    http://thoughtandmemory.org/trac/wiki/cellphone_install

The information system and request handler wiki pages are a hodge
podge right now.
   Info Sys contains scraping stuff, which I need to add to xplanner
since it is an important story to complete this summer. It will jump
start the quick rate or news aggregator applications
     http://thoughtandmemory.org/trac/wiki/informationsystem

The wiki user Locke, in real life one of our adviser board members,
Fritz Knabe, added some thoughts to the Rate It news aggregator page.

So there's lots of potential here, and once we get through some of the
more foundational stories the possibilities will grow.
Keep in touch,

L.