[Linkbat-devel] State of things

[James M. <lin...@ji...>]

Hi All!

I made some changed to the "Detailed KU Description" on the linkbat homepage 
based on things we discussed so far. I am pretty confident that this model is 
workable, so I would like to start working on the code. Luan had to take a 
break for a while so he won't be able to work on the code for the time being.

Rama, are you still out there? If so, let me know so we can start working on 
the parser. If there are other people who want to work on the perl code for 
the conversion of the XML files into CSV/SQL let me know.

Shanta, how do we stand on the delivery mechanism? We had been talking about 
getting a prototype of some of the functionality working (i.e. questions and 
answers) and I was wondering if you had made any progress. 

Are there others who have nothing to do (i.e no assignments)? Let me know. 
Plus I can still use some freeback about the data model. If you have found 
that you have bit off more that you can chew, please let me know as well.

There is new document on the Linkbat site called "Data Flow" which starts to 
describe how I envision the data to flow (i.e. be processed) from the XML to 
CSV to SQL and then delivered on the web. I am also working on a list of 
functions and tables that I think we re going to need. 

I have been thinking about how much to create statically and I think we can 
gain ourselves a lot of speed by create most of pages in advance. However, I 
don't think it is a good idea to have the parser code do that. Instead, the 
parser simply creates the CSV. Then there are other programs that convert to 
SQL and others that create the final files. First it allows different people 
to work on different code and still have a complete, working program when 
they are done. It also allows us to make changes to different components 
later on.

I guess that's it for now.

Regards,

Jim 

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