OpenTelemark

Old News

September 14, 1998
OK... one of these days, I'll have the proper setup for testing. The problem right now is that I need to be able to HUP the server in order to reload a new version -- which means, I need access to the server as root. So I'm hoping that in a day or two, I can start debugging and finally make it to v0.3.x.

More importantly, UConn is using their own web registration setup, so a $#!%load and a half of pressure is off of me. Who knows; maybe all this is for nothing. We'll see. :)

August 5, 1998
Nothing quite like advertising to get a lot of excellent suggestions. I'm working with Tara Andrews to get wombat running JSDK. I'm rethinking how the stats pages should be done (what with the suggestions I've gotten). There have been some changes; some suggestions have been relegated to the Way Future Development category.

Not sure when I'll be doing feature freeze; I had thought to do in very early, but now I realize that it might have to be a lot later, as people will often have excellent suggestions that should go into v1.0.

Code documentation is also underway. This is going to take a long time, what with 3,753 lines of code of which documenting 375 of them has taken a little over an hour. :)

August 3, 1998
Everything that's probably going to go into v1.0 is written. Now to test it; wombat should be up and running JSDK in a few days.

July 30, 1998
Pre-development is mostly done. Now for the painful part: testing all this. :) I haven't finished the HTML forms/pages that talk to OpenTelemark; once I get JSDK up and running on wombat, then I'll have a better feel for what exactly I'm writing. At any rate, all this probably means that I'm in feature freeze for v0.9; I'll try to get that perl configuration script done in time for v1.0.

July 20, 1998
The first 1,500 lines or so of code compile correctly, or mostly did so last week. Not that I've been able to actually test this with the java servlet packages available yet. "Features to be included in v1.0" is almost complete; as "Features hopefully to be included in v1.0" are developed, the bullet item in Development Plans will move accordingly. Wombat now is running 1.1.6; we'll see about getting servlets up and running on it.

July 15, 1998
Version 0.1a is still undergoing development with ~1500 lines of code written. Need to get flying-wombat setup for testing and debugging; it's going to hurt a lot when I finally get around to attempting to compile all this code. Basic functionality is nearing completion.

1998
The unnamed predecessor to OpenTelemark was used for the MIT Inaugural Open Ballroom Dance Competition (1997) and the 2nd Annual MIT Open Ballroom Dance Competition (1998). It was written in perl by David Cho.


dave cho (dcctdw@mit.edu)