decision log

• Team Meeting (9/13)
  • Target Operating System: Microsoft Windows
    • Alternatives: Linux, OS X
    • Rationale: Project already setup for Windows
  • Development Environment: Visual Studio.NET
    • Alternatives: cli/make
    • Rationale: Some members already familiar with VS.NET
  • Graphics Rendering Engine: OGRE
    • Alternatives: none considered
    • Rationale: Project statement requires Ogre, project already uses Ogre
  • Hashed out ideas for our gameplan
• Team Meeting (9/20)
  • None
• Team Meeting (9/27)
  • Outlined tasks until presentation 2
• Team Meeting (10/4)
  • Revised gameplan to include lighting and terrain/sky fixes
• Team Meeting (10/11)
  • Outlined tasks related to presentation 2 for the next week
  • Revised gameplan to delineate between goals for this semester and next semester
    • Attempting to increase robustness and reality this semester
    • Moved "exciting" features to next semester
  • Decided that "this Monday" refers to the monday of the current calendar week
    • Example: If it's Wednesday and I say "this Monday", I am referring to the Monday 2 days ago.
    • Alternatives: "This Monday" refers to the nearest Monday in the future
    • Rationale: Matt and Cole like it better referring to the current week
    • Rationale: "Last Monday" is confusing when it refers to the current calendar week.
• Team Meeting (10/18)
  • Assigned slides for presentation 2
  • Added goal of controlling camera view with the mouse for this semester to the gameplan
• Team Meeting (10/25)
  • Moved weekly team meetings to Tuesday 18:30
  • Revised the project schedule to include more subtasks
  • Divided up tasks for the remainder of the semester
• Team Meeting (10/31)
  • Demo'd team members' work from the last week
  • Created testing plan that outlines unit testing and integration testing
  • Assigned tasks until the next meeting
• Team Meeting (11/7)
  • Reviewed team members' work from the last week
  • No decisions made
• Team Meeting (11/14)
  • Assigned tasks for pres 3
• Team Meeting (11/21)
  • Cutoff for timelogs to be in presentation is Saturday midnight
  • Deadline for slide submittal to Leanne is Friday midnight
• Team Meeting (11/28)
  • Assigned parts of security presentation
• Team Meeting (12/5)
  • Assembled final documentation CD
• Team Meeting (01/18)
  • Assembled a proposal for functionality at each iteration
  • Decided not to meet next Monday since there won't be anything to discuss by that point
• Team Meeting (01/23)
  • performed PMA
  • Decided to meet next Monday to hash out iteration schedules and prepare presentation for lab
• Team Meeting (01/29)
  • created project schedule for iteration 1 (and skeleton for 2/3)
• Team Meeting (02/05)
  • reviewed findings from the week's research
  • decided to meet after lab on Tuesdays except on presentation weeks
• Team Meeting (02/13)
  • reviewed progress from the week's coding efforts
  • it was a boring week
• Team Meeting (02/20)
  • assigned tasks to prepare for presentation 4
• Team Meeting (02/27)
  • assigned tasks for the coming week
  • discussed subversion branch usage
• Team Meeting (03/06)
  • discussed research from the past week
  • assigned tasks for the coming week
• Team Meeting (03/13)
  • assigned tasks for the coming 2 weeks
• Team Meeting (03/20)
  • no team meeting
• Team Meeting (03/27)
  • made final plans for presentation 5 & assigned tasks
• Team Meeting (04/03)
  • discussed plans for open house (meeting on monday at 3:30)
• Team Meeting (04/10)
  • no decisions (prep for open house is complete)
• Email with dag (04/13)
  • multiple levels will be created instead of making the propellers rotate for iteration 3
• Email with dag (04/15)
  • Ogre libraries will be updated instead of creating multiple levels for iteration 3 since we were ahead of schedule
• Team Meeting (04/17)
  • assigned tasks for the next 2 weeks
• Team Meeting (04/24)
  • assigned tasks for presentation 6