ViewVC Help
View File | Revision Log | Show Annotations | Revision Graph | Root Listing
root/i-scream/projects/cms/documentation/minutes/minutes-20001115.txt
Revision: 1.2
Committed: Wed Nov 15 14:58:05 2000 UTC (23 years, 11 months ago) by ab11
Content type: text/plain
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.1: +1 -1 lines
Log Message:
Changed 'locate' to 'location:' =)

File Contents

# Content
1 Minutes of meeting 15/11/00 @ 11am
2 Location: UKC Computer Science Meeting Room
3
4 Present: ab11, ajm4, pjm2, tdb1
5 Absent: None
6
7 Meeting postponed until firealarm finishes. It is noted
8 that Ash and Paul would have been burnt alive if there
9 was a real fire.
10
11 Meeting re-started at 11:20am.
12
13 Discussed the XML packet life problem. This has been
14 identified as a problem because corba passes references
15 to objects making it hard to determine when the object
16 should be distroyed.
17
18 Paul begins implementation of a quotes page.
19
20 Paul suggests that packets should be stored in a queue
21 structure, with 2 integers indicating how far through
22 the queue each accessing function has got (from the start
23 of the queue). This should be more efficicent than
24 storing flags inside each of the XML packet objects.
25
26 Someone needs to find out if you can 'clone' an object
27 over corba. This would solve a lot of local copy problems.
28
29 Discussion of whether UDP packets should be numbered or
30 timestamped proved controversal. In the end it was decided
31 that each UDP packet should contain both a Sequence number
32 and a timestamp (as defined by the host). It is therefore
33 important that the host's time is setup accurately by the
34 sysadmin.
35
36 Meeting concluded @ 12:40