2011.09.22 Weekly Check in

Participants: David Emory, David Turner, Andrew Byrd, Frank Purcell, Bibiana McHugh, Grant and Mele from the Trimet Intern Team

Portland Launch check-in:

DE:

Working on IE compatibility issues, beleive errors were being caused by minification of Raphael library. Some additional testing to do.
Some progress on elevation quirks. Some problems remain with specific edge types. Will follow up with on email / issue tracker.
Goal to have elevation UI enhancements done by weekend.

DT/AB:

Working on slow trips / outlying regions. have discovered some other issues. Have made progress understanding problem.
Timeout issue now implemented; excessively slow searches will be abandoned.
Graph visualization now shows search progress
Release deployment / Maven configuration - 0.4.2 release today. Some Javadoc issues to work through.

FP:

Trimet Interns:

Turn penalty: can someone explain how that works? Answer: It is based on angle of turn; effectively makes street longer. Trimet: Still some cases where planner will route bikes on to crosswalk/footpath unnecessarily. AB: will look into specific configuration, may be worth looking back over general approach as well.
Triangle: disucssion about meaning of "safest" trip and possible addition of "smartest" option -- where does this correspond to on the triangle? Could be helpful to have different sets of weights defined -- Trimet will follow up with some specific numbers.

Bibiana discussed rollout plan:

Oct 14: release press event at Metro, Portland. 10:30am. OP participation would be ideal. Only browser is on demo machine is IE -- need to test!
Oct 15: official launch. Demo at Drupal summit.
Comments will be solicited & monitored / summarized by interns.Team that will be responding to blogs / comments -- need to think about consistency of message.
Drawing for free folding bike for commenters (side conversation: support for onboard bike capacity as future OTP feature).

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