[Mpango-core] Status meeting

[Eduardo de V. T. <etu...@gm...>]

Attendees: edevera, devlee, mbadiac, prbarcelon, tufan, wellings.


First status meeting in the project! Nice to have you on board.

During the meeting it was agreed to use Google Chat instead of IRC as people seem to be more comfortable with it. So next week's meeting will be held over Google Chat. We need some explanation in order to proceed, has anyone used Google Chat in group chats? Help is welcome!
We need to find out why all the people invited did not attend the meeting so that we can try addressing the possible problems in order to have them participating. What were the reasons not to attend the meeting? The timing? The technology? 
I have proceed grating more privileges to the team members that are more committed to the project in order to allow them to work more effectively. 
In particular now devdlee, jaywellings, mbadiac and myself have admin rights for the tracker so that they can assign themselves and others more easily work.

We have agreed on the following work for the team members:

devdlee: 
We have to meet online in order to talk about the settlement of units as cities and if cities should be considered constructions. 

prbarcelon, mbadiac: 
Learning JUnit testing and Easymock. 
Resources to read: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUnit
http://www.vogella.de/articles/JUnit/article.html
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eclipse+junit&aq=f
Creating some unit tests for the existing classes that don't have any of them. 
If you want to see what classes are not tested or need more tests, I have added Cobertura plugin to Maven. This plugin produces reports on unit testing that will help you identify what classes are not being tested. In order to run cobertura plugin, just type mvn cobertura:cobertura. You can find the reports after running the plugin in the target/cobertura folder (they are HTML documents). 

turfan: 
Will write some unit tests for the existing classes.
If you want to see what classes are not tested or need more tests, I have added Cobertura plugin to Maven. This plugin produces reports on unit testing that will help you identify what classes are not being tested. In order to run cobertura plugin, just type mvn cobertura:cobertura. You can find the reports after running the plugin in the target/cobertura folder (they are HTML documents). 

wellings: 
Propose a high level User Interface. This document should contain a schema for the main game play mode with the different areas of the presentation to the user (header, menu, body, footer) as well as for the login screen and the registration screen.



edvera: 
Deliver a structure for the web module for wellings. 
Investigate http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/ for future meetings among the team members.
Continue working on the game script document. 
Add information related to cities.
The turn engine in order to base it on units instead of having a universal turn engine for all players. Turns should be as short as possible so that the players can interact faster with the game. Queues are proposed in order to store a list of things the unit needs to perform.
This document is found in a dropbox folder that has been shared with wellings, prbarcelon, mbadiac and devdlee.
Give tracker rights to all committed members.


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