:: 21-Oct-1998 17:04 (Wednesday) ::
statsbox-ii development is actually progressing quite well. It’s been
a very productive week. As I had mentioned before, one of the most
interesting “features” of the new statsbox will be the incorporation
of multi-project statistics. However, in addition to OGR this also
entails historical projects as well. The databases for rc5-56,
des-ii-1 and des-ii-2 will also be brought back online and the
database structure is being broadened to tie in all projects at
a participant/team level.
For instance, here’s a sample record from the restructured
participants table:
ID: 1
email: nugget@slacker.com
nonprofit: 1
team: 1
firstdate: 24-Mar-1997
lastdate: 19-Oct-1998
rc556: 1
rc564: 1
desii1: 1
desii2: 1
retire_to: 0
Notice there are several new fields, designating when we first (and
when we last) saw activity from this email. There are global flags
which will track project ranking (this doesn’t work yet) and also
serve as convenient indicators for participation. (a 0 in desii1,
for instance, will indicate that the email did not participate in
that project)
Each participant has now been assigned a unique ID number as well,
just as we’ve handled teams previously.
Right now I’m just in the process of converting over all the data
tables to the new format and twiddling various bits. Still haven’t
quite figured out how I’m going to handle the rc5-56 data, which
predates the current teams implementation. I’m sure I’ll come up
with something, though.
Just a brief note to let everyone know that there is considerable
effort and momentum behind the scenes, even if I’m quiet.
Also, it’s not too late to make plans to join us in Atlanta this
weekend for the Atlanta Linux Showcase!
http://www.ale.org/showcase/