[Minibits-general] Project Team, Documentation, To Do's

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

Hi all,
A few developments of late:
1) Our developers have been added to in number: Shailendra Desai has been
added to the team.

2) We now have a documentation manager, Sheena Chachere. Owing to the large
amount of documentation needed for the project it made sense to bring in
someone whose sole focus is documentation, rather than to take developers
away from what they do best. I shall work with Sheena to get the existing
functionality documented. I would expect that with new functionality, the
developer(s) concerned with adding the functionality would email notes on
the change/addition, and appropriate screenshots to allow the docs to be
updated. This is not as yet finalised and so I'll probably be able to give
you all more info once some of the docs are in place.

3) Unless we find ourselves particularly short in a particular area, or
someone emails with a burning desire to join us, I will not be considering
any additional members of the team. The team, as it stands, I think has a
good range of skills and backgrounds, and adding any further members would
increase the admin overheads. Sometime soon I hope to go back to more coding
than admin, rather than the other way round!!! We may, however, in the not
too distant future find ourselves in need of testers, as the only current
operational end user is myself.

4) I continue to add development activities to the project as I think of
useful additions and find fresh bugs. I grade the activities according to
how immediate the activity is, and the dependencies. I also refer back to a
feature request or bug tracker item. I've been trying out over the last week
or so methods of working with tasks, and I find the development activities
tracker a useful way of working. Any views/criticisms/suggestions, let me
know. Should anyone feel the addition of a feature would be valuable, feel
free to add it to the feature request tracker. Also if a task you complete
requires another task to be completed, please feel free to add a development
activity. Note: Activities relating to configuration or the project file
default to d, activities relating to the database default to me.

5) The project is in dire need of a certain amount of data validation and
error handling, to be incorporated in preexisting code. Should anyone feel
they would like to take speccing out this area on, email me and we can
discuss it further.

Rob