Okay - I was interested in when it updated because I was wondering how it would handle regularly updating data, and how that would effect caching.<br><br>And so the tests would just be checks for the data collection scripts - that's fine. Any hints on what kind of things they would actually need to check?<br>
<br>Aside from these questions, I'm hoping to start work on an application soon - would you be willing to read over a first draft of it? This certainly seems like an interesting project, and something within my capability, so I'd like to get my application in as soon as possible :)<br>
<br>--<br>Sam<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Sukhbir Singh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sukhbir.in@gmail.com">sukhbir.in@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
<br>
> So the data is stored in SQL tables, and will need to be extracted, then<br>
> presented to users though the web.<br>
<br>
Yes, that's right.<br>
<br>
> Is the data collected regularly, or would the metrics have to be run when<br>
> someone accesses something on the web interface?<br>
<br>
The data is collected once a month using a cron job and that is not<br>
something you have to worry about! You will only need to fetch what is<br>
there in the database, without worrying about how new/ old it is. Put<br>
simply, leave the database to us and your job is only to bother about<br>
how it is presented.<br>
<br>
> With respect to the information on the GSoC Projects page: "Writing tools to<br>
> verify that the information gathered using the metrics is correct." What<br>
> would this require as part of the project?<br>
<br>
It's not as bad as it sounds :) You have to write tests for the<br>
scripts that gather the data. It's a one week job at most and we will<br>
help you with this to get familiar with how it works.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Sukhbir<br>
<br>
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