eXtension Engineering Staff Meeting:2010-02-09

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    Agenda

    Morning Meeting

    8:30am - 11:30am EST

    • AaE Escalation notifications
    • AaE preferences
      • Searching experts by aae pref location and category
    • Unpublished content concerns
    • Improving category listings in Pubsite to reduce the need for DPLs
    • Making search better

    Morning Notes

    • NASCAR
      • Daytona - bump drafting allowed, larger restrictor plate...but still have the out-of-bounds line
    • Cycling
      • Kevin going to do research on standing-climb numbers for real cyclists
    • AaE Escalation notifications
      • will likely getter better answering performance escalating based on state
      • will continue to have category escalation
      • will add state-based escalation, a Q that has state and category will go to two groups
        • will add check-box to get state-based escalation
      • will make an early announcement of the upcoming change
      • complaints? if the questions get answered, they won't show up in the reports
      • add generic line to category emails and location escalation msgs:
        • "If this question has a state...blah, blah, blah"
          • include link to folks in that list
        • "If this question has a category...blah, blah, blah"
          • include link to folks in that list
      • for later consideration, making widget Q's un-categorizable?
    • AaE preferences
      • separation between AaE data and People profile data for location causing consternation
      • proposal to inject profile location into AaE prefs - then tie them together for updates
    • Unpublished content concerns
      • Jason will create wave describing a possible solution with side-affects, then send out
    • Improving category listings in Pubsite to reduce the need for DPLs
      • Ben will work on some mock-ups
    • Making search better
      • first, make AaE search more FAQ-like
      • then, examine something like Solr to replace Goog site search and AaE and FAQ

    Afternoon Meeting

    12:30pm - 2:30pm EST (times approximate due to staff schedules)

    • Discussion of Aae::ReportsController#assignee and Aae::ReportsController#altassignee
      • Discussion of performance, readability, code standards, etc. - using it as the test case for guiding our development
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