App working group meeting 6 Jan 2004

Attending: JohnAnderson, MorgenSagen, JedBurgess, KatieCappsParlante, MitchKapor

Agenda

• milestone status
• planning for next milestone
• next steps for open issues (collections/queries/cpia/notifications)

Milestones

0.3.05 (6 Jan 2004)

• notification review + unit tests (stuart) ?
• repository notification requirements (stuart and john) done
• common unit test tools (stuart)
• simple blocks and a test view (jed) first pass done
• content model unit tests (katie) first pass done
• repository viewer and transition to ChandlerNew (john) partial
• initial parcel unit tests (morgen) done

0.3.06 (20 Jan 2004)

• initial version of zaobao (stuart)
• initial version of caterpillar ui (jed)

• full transition to ChandlerNew + deadwood removal (john)
• complete repository viewer (john)
  • follow references
  • item display
• second iteration of content model, content model used in caterpillar ui (katie)
• parcel loading bug fixes (morgen)
• blocks work continued (john, generally)
  • notification to specific item (john)
  • containers linked up (splitters and tabs) (jed)
  • query in blocks (john)
  • embedding block (jed)

• parcel bug fixes (morgen)

0.3.07 (3 Feb 2004) -- Feature freeze

• zaobao
• repository viewer
• caterpillar ui
• clean code base (deadwood removed)

Issues

• Next steps (query/notification/collections) (katie)
  • tree control and delayed loading use case
  • queries for blocks
• copy template vs blowing it away (john)
• event dispatch (john and jed after meeting)
• unit test -- run a group of tests (morgen)
• threads and content model (katie)
• derived attributes (katie)
• parcel loading (morgen)
  • partial load for unit tests
  • is too slow (again, unit tests)
  • wxPython issue

Notes

• Hiring is key, ok to spend a bit of time recruiting
• Code review Friday at 3:00 (blocks), also chance to brain dump about cpia current state
• John's first focus is fixing bugs/issues that block Jed, then getting repository viewer to usable state, then ChandlerNew cleanup.
• Same target for milestones + release

-- KatieCappsParlante - 06 Jan 2004