[csms-dev] Thinking about the 0.1 release

[Ross G. <ro...@sa...>]

We need to think about what the 0.1 release will look like. I propose no 
additional features over what we already have. However, I would like it 
in a form that means Mike can use it to calculate scores for the 
Fanfoot.com game.

In order to do this I think there are three things left to tackle

Outstanding Bugs, Tasks and Feature Requests
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I propose that any bug, feature request or taks with a priority of 7 or 
higher should be included in the 0.1 release. Therefore, if you want ot 
see something in the 0.1 release please either add it to SF now or up 
the priority of exeisitng items to at least 7.

Presentation of results
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There are currently two tasks relating to this, Mike needs to see the 
player ID number as well as the player name, and the "prettiness" of the 
output needs to be improved.

Both of these are only a matter of improving the Scores2HTML.xsl in 
src/resources/conf

Error Trapping
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There is currently the facility to flag many errors in the calculation 
of scores. However, some can still slip through.

I can see two ways of improving this situation:

Scrape two information sources and compare the results. If the two 
coincide then we assume it is a valid event, otherwise we flag it for 
manual verification.

This would provide two types of event a confirmed one and an unconfirmed 
one. We can then publish two scores for each player/team, a total 
confirmed score and a total unconfirmed score.

Doing this would require some changes to the way the events are created, 
but would allow people to "dispute" scores. A disputed score could be 
marked as unconfirmed, only becoming confirmed again when manually 
verified by the games administrator.

The second way is simpler to implement, but may allow more errors to 
creep through. In this instance we need to think of as many sanity 
checks for the data as we can (for example, the number of goal scorers 
should be equal to the number of goals scored) and encode these in a 
verification document (which would be XSL).

Of course we can do both if we think it's needed.

Any preferences/ideas?

Ross