UPDATE FOR MEG, June 1st/Correction please note!

[carolynwhite2]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:

Um, please could you make sure this corrected version goes to MEG, 
NOT the last version: post 61393 is of course the last one prior to 
the publication of *OOP*, not GOF. We are not that far behind...



> 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 June 2005
> 
> 56561 posts catalogued in total
> 30974 posts rejected in total (54.7%)
> 3534 posts catalogued in May
> 
> We have reached post 50400 on the main list.
> 
> The group currently still has 26 members, although about a third 
are 
> currently not active for various reasons.
> 
> The coding process continues to pick up momentum, and we have set 
> ourselves a new target: to try and code up to the release of OOP 
> (post 61393), by the time HBP is published on July 16th - ie 
another 
> 10993 posts over the next 7 weeks. This is just do-able, at 
> approximately 1500 posts per week.
> 
> We are also attempting to complete our category reviews by that 
date: 
> currently we have completed 54 of our 106 review sections.
> 
> We feel that these would be major milestones to achieve before many 
> people go AWOL to enjoy the HBP discussion. If at all possible, we 
> would also like to launch a beta version of the catalogue in July 
> assuming we hit these targets.
> 
> However, a launch is totally dependent on the tech team, Paul & 
Tim, 
> completing the programming for a UI that everyone feels happy with. 
> Work is progressing on this, but fairly slowly.
> 
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