Adam Graffunder - Student Staff C&C

software review board improvement

The first step of this project was to capture the current process and identify problems with it. Bill has this information on a site of his that I should locate and link to here.

prototype (phase 1)

The second main phase of this project was to quickly create a no-frills prototype application that Larry and the SRB could use to lighten the work load and have some more automated way of handling all the data involved in the SRB processes.

This application uses our test installation of PHP 5 and XML/XSL as a storage medium. Larry designed the basic HTML pages and the initial XML/XSL. I wrote the PHP that processes the form data and applies, saves, and outputs the XML/XSL. I also made many changes to the initial HTML, XSL, and maybe one to the XML.

Some reuse abstraction has been toyed with, but not implemented app-wide. Overall it's pretty much written as I first just happened to write it. Pretty ugly, but it's not intended to exist for more than 3 months.

Here's the prototype app

Bill's site about the project (gone)

phase 2

requirements
- application
  - Users
    - Moderator
      This is an internal user that can edit steps of a project. It also has an Admin flag that allow the addition and deletion of moderators themselves.
    - Requestor
      This is an external user that has requested software.
  - Request
    - external request-submission page
    - internal request-management page
  - Product
  - Project
    - list
    - new
  - Project Type
  - Step
- Project Statuses (tentative)
  - current or in-progress
  - done or completed
  - declined on abandoned
  - on-hold or delayed
- Access Control
  - moderators can edit steps, projects, and make new projects
  - everyone else can view public pages, like a list of projects and basic info
  - moderators w/ admin can add new moderators
environment
- www - php
  I'm using a php webapp framework called cake for this application