Chris-201209

Daily Entries

BEGIN PARSING ENTRIES - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE

Week of 2012-09-08 to 2012-09-14

2012-09-11 Tue -- 2 hrs

• eri:1h:Took apart mac mini and swapped out its hard drive with a different one
• cein:1h:Worked on migrating content from the old site to the drupal version

2012-09-10 Mon -- 3 hrs

• eri:3h:Looked up all the prices on the batteries that we are going to replace and their trade in values
  • I think getting new batteries is cheaper than the trade in program (the discounts are not very high for any of the UPS' I tried)

2012-09-09 Sun -- 0 hrs

2012-09-08 Sat -- 0 hrs

Week of 2012-09-01 to 2012-09-07

2012-09-07 Fri -- 3 hrs

• eri:1h:Pulled hard drives from stooge, aki, and ksdell and put them out in the hallway
• eri:2h:Looked up battery info for all the UPS' and researched whether it would be cheaper to buy new batteries or do the trade-in program
  • So far APC's trade in program seems to give a better discount than Eaton's (this is probably because we are trading in APC units)

2012-09-06 Thu -- 2 hrs

• eri:1.5h:Finished up with UPS' in 6706
  • Now have to discuss with Aaron what we need to do with them (new batteries to test them out or do one of the trade in programs to get a discount on a new UPS)
• cein:30m:Reviewed changes that I have recently made to the site:
  • Figured out how to use one contextual filter to correctly display the Theme title, group leader message, and members of a group on the research page
  • Also did some styling to the people and contacts page to make it look more similar to the original site

2012-09-04 Tue -- 2 hrs

• eri:2h:Documented amount of UPS' in 6706 and tried entering various ones into APC and Eaton's trade in programs to see what the discounts are like

2012-09-03 Mon -- 0 hrs -- Labor Day

2012-09-02 Sun -- 0 hrs

2012-09-01 Sat -- 0 hrs

FINISH PARSING ENTRIES - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE

Recharge Examples/Entry Instructions

Recharge Entries fall into 3 broad categories:  
  Direct charges - charges to a PI, Category, Account fund - Done monthly
  Deferred charges - charges that are accumulated for Services (Disk Storage, Backups, Websites, etc) paid quarterly
  Departmental charges - entries that are made to track time taken for various services that are provided by the department.  Possibly used by IT staff to make decisions

Recharge Entry Examples (each entry is expected to follow a list tag entry in the final html (ie: an asterisk in the wiki editor)):
 *NEES:20 min:Backups                         -- basic entry, NEES charged 20 minutes for backups
 *Frew:20:Backups                             -- implied units -- units default to minutes
 *Dozier:1.5h:Backups                         -- units flexible - space between amt and units optional, h is shorthand for hours, m shorthand for minutes
 *Davey/Frew/Dozier:20 min each:Backups       -- create recharge entries for this amt of time for each of the categories
 *Davey/Frew/Dozier:2 hours split:Backups     -- split time equally between each of the categories
 *eri.web:20m:Work on research website

Project examples: - ie: NEES, Snow, Oceancolor, Dragon, CCBER
Account entries can be subcategorized by creating a hierarchy using "."'s to separate fields (ie: eri.space.girvetz)

More detailed Syntax Breakdown (in pseudo BNF) :
 ENTRY = *ACCTSPEC:TIMESPEC:DESCRIPTION                         -- one entry per line
 ACCTSPEC = ACCT[[/ACCT]...]                                    -- the Account/Category/Project/CostCenter to be recharged
 TIMESPEC = AMT [UNIT [LOOP-OP]]                                -- amount of time spent - default is minutes
 ACCT = PI | Project | Account | Category [.SubCategory[...]]   -- PI/Project/Acct/Category: ie: Frew, NEES, Dragon, Infra, conf,...
 AMT = float | integer                                          -- Amount of time spent -- float or int
 UNIT = [hour|hr|h|minute|min|m]                                -- units of time to apply to amount - default is minute -- spaces optional between amt and units
 LOOP-OP = [each|split]                                         -- specialized operators - CATEGORY list is split on "/"s and an entry created for each one when processed.

Non-direct Recharge Categories (and associated SubCategories):
 *admin - efforts for administrative staff

 *lic.[itt, matlab, math, arcgis] --licensing stuff.
 *web.[drupal,wiki,cms,ftp]       -- not sure this will be a top level charge

 *stor.[disk,bk,tape]
 *stor.bk                         -- efforts relating to backups
 *stor.disk                       -- disk server related time
 *stor.tape                       -- tape backups
 
 *it.[net,dev,team,ucsb,stadm,dsr,nsmgmt]
 *it                             -- alone infers ERI business (infra/sysadm/blahblahblah).
 *it.net                         -- efforts relating to departmental networking (cabling)
 *it.dev                         -- software development, scripting, new services...
 *it.team                        -- efforts relating to IT team meetings/discussions... how about powow?
 *it.ucsb                        -- UCSB training/meetings/discussions/committees or campus greater good.
 *it.stadm                       -- efforts relating to any IT student assistants
 *it.dsr                         -- efforts relating to departmental safety representative work

Other Stuff

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