UPDATE FOR MEG, July 1st

[carolynwhite2]

Would one of you passing elves pick this up and take over to MEG?

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PROGRESS ON CATALOGUING PROJECT AS AT 1st July 2005

68487 posts catalogued in total
39826 posts rejected in total (58.1%)
11926 posts catalogued in June

We have reached post 61393 on the main list, the last post before 
publication of OOP. This was the target we set ourselves at the 
beginning of last month, and we have achieved it with approx three 
weeks to go before HBP is published on July 16th.

The whole group has now stopped coding and is concentrating on 
completing our category reviews by that date. Currently we have 
completed 64 of our 106 review sections.

Unfortunately our hope of launching a beta version of the catalogue 
search screens for testing by that date is now not going to be 
possible.

This programming work is solely in the hands of Paul & Tim, and both 
of them are working on other projects at present (FictionAlley and 
Accio respectively). They hope to get to the catalogue work towards 
the end of July.

The new plan, therefore, is that we get the reviews done and then 
cease activity on the catalogue so that the whole group can enjoy HBP 
mania over the summer. During this time, we hope that the UI will be 
developed, and that it can be got to work with the posts that we have 
catalogued so far. 

We suggest that this is then launched to the membership, and 
separately, the group begins work on the next set of posts (OOP and 
beyond).

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