documentation/minutes/minutes-20010205.txt

Minutes of meeting 05/02/2001 @ 2pm
Location: UKC Computer Science Meeting Room

Present: ajm4, pjm2, tdb1
Absent: ab11

Ash was absent from this meeting after oversleeping and not
making it to campus on time. The group waited for around an
hour before commencing the meeting anyway.

Initial discussions were, as usual, about the progress of
the systems. A lot of work had been done since the last
meeting, some due to the design change in the database. Paul
put extensive work into completely rewriting the DBReporting
tools, and they now run considerably quicker. AJ made the
frontend of the client display nearly all the data in a
graphical form, and changed more stuff "under the hood". Tim
implemented the local client structure, on both the server,
and a dummy client.

After feedback in the week from jc with regard to our
database size, the group decided it was worth discussing his
opinions. The group could understand the viewpoint, but
stuck by the long standing decision to use XML formatting
for the data. However, it was decided to look into
compression techniques, and possibly removing some of the
unneeded tags (using attributes?).

The group noted that time was slowly running out, and 
expressed concern on the development of the host. Ash was 
absent and unable to comment. There were 3 weeks remaining 
until project week, and a lot to do.

On the whole, the group were happy with the milestones at 
present, with some parts being further behind than planned, 
but others further ahead.

There will be no meeting with Ian this week. The next group
meeting will be on Monday.
Revision:	1.1
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1	tdb	1.1	Minutes of meeting 05/02/2001 @ 2pm
2			Location: UKC Computer Science Meeting Room
3
4			Present: ajm4, pjm2, tdb1
5			Absent: ab11
6
7			Ash was absent from this meeting after oversleeping and not
8			making it to campus on time. The group waited for around an
9			hour before commencing the meeting anyway.
10
11			Initial discussions were, as usual, about the progress of
12			the systems. A lot of work had been done since the last
13			meeting, some due to the design change in the database. Paul
14			put extensive work into completely rewriting the DBReporting
15			tools, and they now run considerably quicker. AJ made the
16			frontend of the client display nearly all the data in a
17			graphical form, and changed more stuff "under the hood". Tim
18			implemented the local client structure, on both the server,
19			and a dummy client.
20
21			After feedback in the week from jc with regard to our
22			database size, the group decided it was worth discussing his
23			opinions. The group could understand the viewpoint, but
24			stuck by the long standing decision to use XML formatting
25			for the data. However, it was decided to look into
26			compression techniques, and possibly removing some of the
27			unneeded tags (using attributes?).
28
29			The group noted that time was slowly running out, and
30			expressed concern on the development of the host. Ash was
31			absent and unable to comment. There were 3 weeks remaining
32			until project week, and a lot to do.
33
34			On the whole, the group were happy with the milestones at
35			present, with some parts being further behind than planned,
36			but others further ahead.
37
38			There will be no meeting with Ian this week. The next group
39			meeting will be on Monday.