When will we be through?

[carolynwhite2]

Carolyn, do you have a projected date for finishing this review and
recommencing regular coding?

Anne

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" 
<willsonkmom at m...> wrote:
> 
> After this review, we'll go back to coding. Will there be another 
> review of coded posts? If so, will this section of posts be noted 
as 
> reviewed or will there be another big review that looks at these 
> again?
> 
> Kathy W.

I sense a wail of despair..

This review has taken a lot longer than I expected, not helped by not 
being able to get in to the database for four days (alas, unplanned).

So we don't lose momentum, I suggest we give it one more week and see 
how many big sections we can finish by then. After that, those with 
energy and time could perhaps deal with some of the unfinished 
sections as and when they can fit them in, but we all basically go 
back to coding from Monday 14th March.

When we do, the most important thing is that everyone reads, learns 
and inwardly digests what we've discovered - ie, that we have been 
massively over-coding, and that the definitions of some sections are 
extremely imprecise, or at least unclear to a lot of people.

I am going to carefully maintain the documents I posted yesterday, as 
a ready reference to our consensus so far, and add to them as we go 
on, to try and prevent some of this in future.

As to the timetable from there on in, well, we have roughly four 
months until HBP is published. I am not expecting anyone to be paying 
attention much to this project once that happens, though I hope 
people will come back to it once the initial fuss has died down - 
maybe by the end of August, if that's not too optimistic.

With this in mind, and looking at what we have managed to code so 
far, I think it is possible that we might get another 20000 or so 
posts done by July 16, maybe more, maybe less, which would take us to 
about post 65000 on the main list. That would be enough content to 
launch with, IMO, so, assuming we have the search routines built and 
designed, it is not impossible that we could have the DB up and 
running for people to use at that point.

However, I must admit, having had this review experience, I would 
prefer to have the chance to see what we had stashed away in the 
categories before exposing the sections to the ridicule of the whole 
membership. I don't think we could complete a review and that number 
of posts in that timescale, so it is perhaps more sensible to think 
of a launch much later towards the end of 2005.

Carolyn