Re: Meeting 17 May - Agenda

On 18 May 2017 at 15:25, Chiheb Kaibi <chiheb.kaibi@european-athletics.org>
wrote:

> Hello Martin,
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> After a second look at your example for a 100m competition, we have some
> comments here at EA.
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> You use the words stage and round here. Maybe we should stay closer to
> what the IOC proposed in the ODF. They use the words Phase and Units for
> these levels in the competition structure. Have a look at the following
> chart:
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We were having exactly the same discussion on the whiteboard in London, as
I have to rename/name some database tables urgently.

I like these IOC terms - "Phase" and "Unit".   I imagine it comes ourt of
years of arguing by experiences sports administrators.

I prefer "Unit" to "Round", because we are already using integer round
values (round 1, round 2, round 3) as attributes of the Unit; and because
'round' is a reserved word and built-in function in many programming
languages.

In FinishLynx every race file has a first line with four facts at the
beginning, and we will be getting a huge volume of data in this format,

     event_id, round, heat, event_name, [then lots more stuff ]

round and heat are integers with a default of 1.  So it's very useful to
call the class or table "Unit" and to know that 'round' just holds an
integer.

I wish we could get together and thrash this out.

- Andy