Up To The Minute

This week we started development on the next group of Devcathlon events. I was tasked with creating the Don't Wait Until The Last Minute event along with John Ly. For this event we had to penalize any team that did their work at the last minute.

To get the data at first we thought about using the ProjectDailyData but it turns out it would have have taken longer to process compared to just using ProjectSensorData. Another issue I encountered was how the makeBuildData, makeCommitData, makeDevTimeData worked with timestamps. It turns out that if they were all created with the same timestamp then only one of them would actually work. So we had to go in and make sure that each time we used them they would have a unique timestamp.

The event that we created will calculate the penalty for each day of the penalty duration but it won't calculate the cumulative penalty score. There was nothing in the event description that said we had to get the cumulative penalty score, just the day by day penalty.

There's still an issue of how penalties are calculated. For this event we used the BaseScoreWeight as a positive multiplier for the penalty since there was no way to gain points in this event.