[Takeaction-devel] Take Action Update.

[Justin B. <mik...@ho...>]

Mike,

Another update on where we stand now. We are finally starting the second 
"phase" of this project, where we complete Analysis of the system, design, 
code, test and release it. There will be much more tangible progress in the 
next three months. Our academic requirements are the production of a very 
detailed design document, the fully functional system, and a presentation of 
it. The design document will likely be of more interest to you than the the 
Analysis document was, as it will contain all the details that were 
deliberately left out of the Analysis document (as we were instructed to 
do).

It is necessary for us to model the existing Take Action code in our design 
document, so that any work we do will fit within the current design. Could 
I, therefore, have a copy of the current code? I`ve been searching the files 
in the sourceforge webspace (sf.net/projects/takeaction), but haven`t seen 
anything other than the Statement of Scope (oddly enough, sf seems to be 
down tonight - as of 9:00pm 23/08/2003).

Your previous e-mail had some great system features that we would like to 
implement. As you may recall, though, we are guided to strictly adhere to 
the Statement of Scope, and to only produce code and documentation based on 
the initial, established system requirements. We realize that much of this
functionality will already be in place come October/November, and so I am 
communicating with the school, in order to find some way to add the extra 
features and still obey academic guidelines.

In the likely event that the school says no, we can relate some of the extra 
features to the "desirable" requirements as found on pages 14 and 15 of the 
Statement of Scope, so that we can do them anyway. Any other features that 
were not mentioned in the Statement of Scope are out of the bounds of this 
project, BUT if the system is completed on or before schedule as is 
expected, we can take some time to implement the extra features, as 
extra-curricular work.

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