[Minibits-general] CVS Usage, Skills, Etc

[Rob W. <ro...@na...>]

Hi all,
A number of developments since last I emailed.
To aid communication it would help immensely if we could use some common
form of instant messaging. It is sometimes very slow to get info by email. I
suggest ICQ. For the benefit of this, my number is 231229701.

I think we also need to develop a better ide of what each of us see their
role within the project as being, and also skills. This will aid me to work
out what skill areas we need to strengthen to allow the project to grow.
I'll kick this off:
My skills:     VB programming for 4 years or so
                   Database experience in Access
                   Experience in Java (6 months) and C/C++ (1 yr).
                   Business experience mainly from a Repair & Overhaul point
of view
                   Experience in web authoring (3 years)
                   Training in software engineering
                   UML (2 yrs)

My role within the project: Primarily as a coder
                                      Providing ideas for direction
                                      Administration of the project
                                      Design

Following neatly on from this, I think we need someone to take care of the
website and documentation side of things, to allow the coders to code, so to
speak. So I shall be trying to find someone over the next few days.

d and I have been discussing some of the settings. Some
implementation-specific settings will be kept in the database,
workstation-specific settings will be kept in the registry.

It has been agreed that it is necessary to develop some usage methods for
the CVS. d will be putting together some notes, but in brief, it is
necessary to limit developer changes to frmMainMenu and MiniBits.vbp. This
is because the code is frequently changing for these forms. All changes
required for these forms should take place through d. I'll leave it to him
to notify you of how such changes should be communicated.

It is also necessary to maintain a list of versions of MiniBits. I will add
a file to CVS over the next few days. The revision number should be
incremented whenever a change is made to the source code that will either
remove a bug or provide an improvement. It will be within the MiniBits
module, named Version.txt.

Any thoughts, reply to the list.
Rob