I seem to remember this actual conversation.
Marketing: I need the schedule. Engineering: Do you want the 50/50 date or the 90/10 date? Marketing: Give me the 50/10 date. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 8:57 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] site monitor base 3 availability? Sounds like you follow the 90/90 rule of project schedules. 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, the remaining 10% of the work takes the other 90%. In my specific case, I had about a week set aside to do what I thought was a couple days of SNMP work. Basically just map everything to the correct OIDs in the SNMPd system. Then I discovered that I had too many OID's due to a coded-in limit and a couple other things were getting in the way as well. This was week one. The next 30 days was determined there was no reasonable way to remove the limit from the existing code and make it work. Then there was the month of trying to make some other off the shelf code work. Oh and throw in a couple holidays for good measure. I just wish I knew now how little time in comparison writing a stack from scratch was going to be, although there's still work to be done for future feature sets (write/sets, possible SNMPv3 support, etc.), it wasn't nearly as painful as I thought it would be to get where I wanted to be, plus it's a lot easier to use than the old one. On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 1:43 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> > wrote: “February has been all about getting the work done I expected to be doing in November and December. “ Put that on my tombstone. From: Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:07 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] site monitor base 3 availability? Very close. I can't give you an exact date right this second, as there are too many moving parts which all have to come together. I'm going through and doing all the validation work at this point and cleaning up anything I find. I'm guessing the week or two after WISPAMERICA at this point but it could slide another couple weeks as a result of the challenges in obtaining raw materials right now. I ended up spending a couple of months back in November/December figuring out that the SNMP code that we've been using for years (including in the RackInjector) wasn't going to work for the SiteMonitor 3. And then trying and then giving up on a couple of alternative SNMP stacks. After the holidays, I ended up writing an SNMP stack from scratch and that triggered some other code changes since there were some architecture decisions I made to attempt to get around the shortcomings in the original SNMP stack which weren't valid anymore. Made things a lot nicer/easier, but it was work getting it there. February has been all about getting the work done I expected to be doing in November and December. At this point it's mostly about doing the final release process and then doing integration with the Automatic Test. Once that is done and I've 100% verified that the board design I have is good, we'll order production boards. There is a chance that I'll end up having to do an additional (minor) board revision during this process. Normally if that happens, I'll typically order 10 or so of the new design to verify I didn't screw something up in the process of fixing whatever was broken, but in this case, I'll increase the order to whatever is pre-ordered so I can at least get those out. Of course like anything with a schedule the crap could hit the fan and this schedule goes out the window. I will be doing a walkthough of the new devices in the PacketFlux session on thursday afternoon. On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:39 AM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com <mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > wrote: Its getting at the end of February, what are we looking at in availability of these bad boys? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- - Forrest _____ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- - Forrest
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