Dacopan project MEETING MINUTES
Apr 27th, 2004
Meeting
Apr 27th, 2004, at 16:15
Department of Computer Science
Attendance
Jari Aarniala
Jonathan Brown, chairman
Jarkko Laine
Turjo Tuohiniemi, instructor
Vesa Vainio
Carlos Arrastia Aparicio
Alejandro Fernandez Rey, secretary
Absent
Nobody was absent.
1. Start
Mr. Brown started the meeting at 16:15
2. Assessment of the situation
We're still coding. A presentation of the actual situation of the Animator
module was shown to Mr.Kojo in the beginning of the meeting. Some issues
about the trip to Petrozavodsk are discussed as well.
3. Discussion
I Mr. Kojo's comments on the actual situation of the user interface:
- If possible, the units on MSC animation could be arrows which will
indicate the direction where the unit goes (from host A to host B or
viceversa).
- Scale or animation time settings could be used to present the units
using all available space on the screen. For those networking scenarios
that present a lot of traffic, it may be interesting to be able to
scroll up and down.
- It will be also possible to make the UFO/Notes area somehow hideable
or minimizable to visualize full-sized MSC or ENC animation.
- Variables data on the unit can be made particular to each direction;
for instance, in TCP, it's interesting to show a unit's sequence number
from host A to host B, and the acknowledgement number in next unit from
B to A. But in this last unit the sequence number is not interesting.
A solution could be to show both variables for both transfer units.
II Remaining tasks and priorities in completion
The actual discussion began when the presentation to Mr. Kojo finished,
that is at 17h20.
Tasks to be completed:
- Scenario matters: the scenario mode, panel and its connection to the
MainFrame are discussed. The place for the scenario panel would be next to
the Note area on the right bottom side of the screen, maybe as a splitpane.
- MainFrame class needs still to handle state information.
- State semantics or transitions between different states of animation features
could be stated to make the behaviour of the program consistent.
- The get the scenario feature working, setting classes and state classes
must be completed. The setting panel needs some improvements and changes.
- Layer buttons could maybe be more than just buttons and present
information about the actual layer that is being shown, maybe by
highlighting one of them.
- ENC animation: the algorithm that creates the tree to be shown seems to
be working fine on the test cases, now the Swing graphic implementation
could be completed. The actual "quit encapsulation" button must be changed
to be able to come back to MSC animation.
- Coordination between groups, integration through PEFs:
Existing PEFs for internal testing could be made available to the P-group
because they may be useful to them. The H-group will be interested in getting
PEFs from the P-group if they have some as well, to assure integration.
- Note panel and the NoteManager can also be completed.
- Localization can be done later.
- UFO panel is in an early stage of completion.
The prioritisation of the tasks is determined by the action points.
4. Action points
- Jarkko: continue working on MainFrame.
- Vesa: work on settings, animation sequence and msc panel.
- Jonathan: take care of the note panel and note manager, and work together
with Jari on the encapsulation panel.
- Jari: work on encapsulation panel.
- Carlos: work on the settings panel.
- Alejandro: work on testing document, write email to P-group about PEFs.
5. End
The official meeting ended at 19:00.
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