[Cs5500] Decision Making in Software Projects

[Karl Lieberherr]

I asked Ahmed about how we can improve SCG Court to make it more web-friendly.
This is an issue that the Spartan's will address but the entire class
should be aware of this issue and contribute to the discussion that leads
to a decision that the Spartan's will implement.

Use chapter 12, Rationale Management for help with this process.

We will start this discussion in class on Monday. The Spartan's should be ready
to be discussion leaders.

-- Karl

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ahmed Abdelmeged <mohsen at ccs.neu.edu>
Date: Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: SCG question
To: Karl Lieberherr <lieber at ccs.neu.edu>


What makes it hard to put the avatars anywhere on the internet is that
the scgCourt system "initiates" the communication with the avatars.
Giving this up has the following consequences:
 1. There is no way for the scgCourt system to "notify" avatars that
it is their time to go. As a consequence, avatars cannot start right
after the previous turn ends or know that that they can go earlier
because one of the avatars got kicked.
Should we decide to give that up, our two alternatives are:
1. To have a regular time for avatars to contact the scgCourt system
that is agreed upon at registration time.
2. To use polling. avatars keep polling the server.
The good news is that the change will be localized to the
communication/networking module.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Karl Lieberherr <lieber at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Ahmed:
>
> I have a question about SCG. We would like to make it easy to put
> the avatars anywhere on the web, not just on college computers.
> What is your recommendation for doing this based on what you have implemented?
>
> -- Karl
>



--
Ahmed