Monday, and I'm back in the yellow/green embrace of B224. Good to return to a familiar desk.

The ambitious plan is to have the site switched over to markless linking by the end of the week, Then dance a little.

Carl's priority is to get the new Harv. Music dictionary up to the site. Imports/linking and work on the markless links are pretty much mutually exclusive, as each makes heavy demands on the DB. Amit's worked over the weekend to get imports up-to-date before his week in Poland, so I'm hoping there's not going to be much of a clash. The plan, then:

1. Survey remaining import work.
2. If Harv can go live, put it up to the live site but don't add it to accounts. Tell Carl when it's ready. Delay any other pending relinks until after the markless link switch.
3. Add the new getSyncClientId API.
4. Prepare new jar for release, including the markless link gubbins.
5. Create support indexes on db_server and rsw1.
6. Test and release this month's jar.
7. Cluster update, watching like a hawk for any anomalies (long queries, etc).
8. If all's well, update link step of import process to drop and recreate indexes, skip sqllink and mark link steps.
9. Perform next import and put it live.
10. If we're happy with everything after a couple of weeks, clear away the now-unused database structures.

Right? Right.

T

- posted by Tim Bruce @ 11:47 AM