Sunday, December 27th, 2015 9:35 PM EST
Updates from last week:
Batch
- First off, I hope you all enjoyed FFRMas and had an excellent Christmas. FFRMas ended with a release on December 25th.
- I'm working on a site for a pack series I have which involves setting up a Content Management System. This is a development task that will take a little while, probably around a week -- I already have worked 3 days on it. You can see the progress in
this thread.
- The staff is still transitioning into JIRA for a new progress tracking software. This week I can also look into configuring proper permissions for the judges to start using it. This does not prevent me from posting Sprint Overviews, it just changes the way that staff can organize information and how judges can log their work.
- Since this is holiday season and people have plans for New Years, judging will most likely be inactive this week. Once it's past New Years, judging should pick up again.
- TC_Halogen and psychoangel691 will continue planning 11th Official Tournament Files and judging the Official Tournament Batch.
- In the To Do sections, you'll notice that there are still many judging tasks on the backlog. These will be revisited after the staff tries out JIRA and determines if it's a suitable use case or not.
- With the FFRMas releases, 12 songs have been released from the accepted queue. On that note the Batch Search Engine is outdated from this, and I'll also need to update that in the next few days as well; I have a heavy focus on the CMS right now.
Web Development Team
- While the current development team's term ends on December 31st, I have plans on transitioning them to using JIRA with proper permissions to aid in the development of a Batch Submission Site.
- As mentioned earlier, I am working with a CMS to build up a pack series site in preparation for also being able to move the Batch Search Engine to a database where users can add and edit their content without involving just me. I have created a document for other staff members to update the Batch Search Engine, but all the recent changes that have been happening are rather intricate transitions that will take time even with planning.