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minutes-20001017.txt
Minutes of Meeting, 17/10/2000 @ 7pm. Location: 2 Mead Way Present: ab11, pjm2, tdb1 Absent: ajm4 Initial discussions surrounded the fact that iau wants a plan from us pretty soon. However, we soon digressed to the other things we needed to get working on. These are as follows; - Produce a feature list - re: first minutes - Produce an "implementation phases" document, based on the feature list - Prepare the above two for review by jc (and iau?) - Set ourselves some rough milestones (ie. phase 3 by xmas etc...) - With the above in mind produce a plan for the overall project and assign initial roles. - Define the Interfaces of the various server classes - Define the Protocols for cross-network data Discussions about all of our limited knowledge of C/C++ put an end to the plan that one of us could actually write all the host programs :) Some questions and points were raised - Differences between Solaris SPARC/Intel - will program run on both ? - The "Client Interface" in the server - how much "thinking" will it do, and how much will be left to the client. (Thinking about bottlenecks). - Database, need to get a machine sorted, and pick database. - Would multicasting work for server to client communications ? Next the document on the Implementation Phases was drawn up. It's only provisional at this stage, but gives us some initial ideas. It was noted that by using "phases" we can have milestones/breaks for testing, documentation and review. This would ensure that we keep things under control, and don't get swamped in code. It was also mentioned that using phases would help to keep the whole project in sync - ie. the server code would not run off ahead of the host code. pjm2 leaves at 7:45pm, whilst ab11 & tdb1 continue with implementation phases document. The final Implementation Phases document is seperately stored. Meeting is concluded at 8:30pm to watch MIB.
