Re: [Tm4j-developers] Some news and an idea

[Gerd M. <ge...@sm...>]

Hi Florian,

> Kal, Gerd, I have some news I'd like to mention to you. Not about any
> progress on the TM4J DOM package (yet), but perhaps worth discussing.
> 
> OK, the initial news is that I'm back from 3 weeks of training. I
> have a few certification exams left to take, but at least I'm no
> longer occupied 100% of the day. So I should be able to make more
> time for TM4J in the weeks to come, and we'll see some progress on
> the DOM package in the foreseeable future.
> 
> The other news is that my current project just bombed. I've been
> working on a knowledge management project, TM-related, since
> February. This started out as a college initiative (the "applied
> science" bit, you know), and was about to be continued as such -- and
> to hit commercial development -- this fall. Yesterday, two of the
> five developers involved informed the rest of the team that they were
> no longer interested (contrary to commitments they had made just
> three weeks before), and the partner organization is more than likely
> to go ahead and pursue the same thing with some other development
> team. Bottom line for me is, I'm out. Bummer.
> 
> Now, I'm in a situation where a) I don't have a TM project on my
> hands and b) I don't have a college project on my hands (the latter
> is mandatory for my coming two semesters). I don't like either of
> these two facts. :-) Now, I would like to know from you what you are
> thinking about the following ideas: 
> 
> * For the record, delegate a specific pending task in the TM4J
> project to me (e.g. work on the DOM package, if we want that),

I don't mind. I guess there also the part of the navigation tool left 
open. Another idea is a query language. I've already started the
implementation of the Tolog query language, but there are still lot of
things to do.

> * File that task as a one-man project with my college (FHS
> Informationsberufe, Eisenstadt, Austria) with a projected 200
> man-hours total amount of work -- that's the default for what they
> consider a 9-month project, believe it or not. The number is totally
> ludicrous, and is one of dozens of strange rules imposed by our PHB.
> They always want lots of paper, status reports, and MS project files
> to make the whole thing look like what they think is a professional
> project.
> 
> Now, all of this is, as of yet, totally unofficial, and if at all
> possible, will definitely require a lot of negotiation with the
> college on my part and a bit of paperwork on your part. But I would

Which kind of paperwork ?

> like to know if, provided I manage to get all obstacles out of the
> way, you would be interested in actually taking that course of
> action.
> 
> I fully understand that all this is happening a bit suddenly -- after
> all, I've appeared in the TM4J project out of the blue just a few
> weeks ago and none of you have had the chance of really getting to
> know me. So absolutely no hard feelings if I get a no-go. :-) But if
> you guys are thinking this is a feasible idea, please let me know as
> soon as you can. I'd have to start contacting the college
> administration ASAP and see if I can get them to approve. My classes
> start on September 17, and if we want to do this, I should aim at
> reaching some sort of productive stage by October 1.

Best Regards,
Gerd

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Gerd Mueller                                    ge...@sm...     
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