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Notes on Project DB talk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Thu Jun 24 10:27:15 1999
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:23:56 -0400
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From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: project-db@MIT.EDU
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Hi...
I talked briefly about the new project notebook templates last week. Allow
me to provide more information on how project leaders would use them:
1. From Athena.
Request a locker by writing email to afsreq explaining the desired name,
usage, and rough size estimates.
cd yourlocker
attach pm
cp /mit/pm/notebook/* .
edit the templates using your preferred html editor (amaya is being suggested).
2. From a pc or mac
Request a locker by writing email to afsreq explaining the desired name,
usage, and rough size estimates.
use your web browser to access http://web.mit.edu/pm/notebook/projpage.html
save this page and the others under it (save as under the file menu, I think)
use your preferred html editor to tailor the pages to your requirements
transfer the saved pages to afs (see http://web.mit.edu/cwis/secure-xfer/ )
3. In either case, provide the URL to the director so that they can update
the project database to point to your project notebook.
You need to think about when in your project you will be updating the
project notebook pages (perhaps at significant points in the schedule, or on
a regular basis).
Mike
P.S. Just to confirm where we are in the process of changing to a new,
improved project database.
1. To preview the new database, please go to
http://gypsy.mit.edu/fcgi-bin/brlfcgi/brlpdb/index.html
New/Changed Features include:
- the database has gone on a diet. Many fields were removed.
- the top summary page has been re-organized to include the project
notebook, contact, and target date.
- search pages (such as the Project by Process pages) have an Add button
to allow addition of projects.
- the Project Information Page should display all the project information.
- several pages now have a Help button, which is currently linked to
http://web.mit.edu/pm/helppdb/ -- a placeholder for documentation to come.
If you have comments or suggestions, please send them to project-db@mit.edu
2. The Project-db will be shut down next Thursday (July 1). While Miki
expects to have the changes in place and running sometime July 2, we have
allowed ourselves the "fallback" time of the long weekend in case of
problems. By July 6, we expect the operational project database to be up
and running again.
3. At that time, I recommend that people review the information. While we
are expecting to transfer the contents of the current database to the new
one, there may be areas where the information is lacking or incorrect.
4. Still to come:
- the Help pages
- Training and documentation
- corrections to the web pages that access the current database.
- simplification of the status values
The main change is that the ITLT is taking responsibility for adding and
modifying the project information in the project database. Project leaders
will have the responsibility for maintaining project notebooks, kept
in AFS lockers.
Thanks
mike
