Apps Meeting 15 Feb 2005

Agenda

• .5: balancing bugs, any other tasks (apps team bugs)
• .6 planning
• hiring

Notes

• John is going to tackle the ItemCollection and monitor notification issues. Its a bit risky, but getting this right will knock off a bunch of bugs. Aparna would characterize these notification bugs as P1, not blocking. We think its worth fixing these bugs.
• Bryan will take the action item to do the agreed upon menu cleanup (taking this from John).
• Jed, Bryan and others are grabbing bugs from John's plate where they can.
• John would like to review his bug list with the bug council.
• Sheila, David and Katie will review the widgets bugs, thinking about .5 and .6.
• Morgen is doing some further content model cleanup.
• John is going to spend some quality time at the beginning of the .6 release continuing to fix bugs, as the list is kind of long.
• Documents for .5:
  • CPIA document
  • Item collections and notifications
  • Architecture overview
  • Zaobao tutorial
• You can't see the blocking bit in the bug summary. Would be nice if bug council marked status as "blocker".
• It would be good to put a link to "blocking bugs" on dev home page.
• Sharing overview meeting was very useful. Good to bring folks from different people together. Good to get the scope of what we're doing, without the pressure to make immediate decisions.
• Morgen will look at whether or not he can do a one time import ics from server (for Pieter's demo).
  • Morgen will be on vacation, Jeffrey Harris can help during that time.
  • Other tweaks might be useful if we can't get to it -- dialog instead of hard coding filename, including file in cvs tree, etc.

Status

Katie

• Checked in in-place editing. Fixing bugs. Still need to do overlapping meetings.
• Handing off calendar to Alec for 0.6.

Bryan

• Fixing 0.5 bugs (tracking here^?)
  • Trying to focus on attribute editor bugs to gain experience with AEs
  • Next priority (which may not happen until after vacation) is converting Block's item-collection-subscription mechanism to use monitors; this'll remove the current necessity to commit after setting a calevent reminder (and doing it centrally will have benefits for other blocks that watch collections (like maybe the sidebar and summary views?)
  • I've fixed several other bugs as they've come up; I don't think any of remaining bugs will block 0.5.

John's status

• JohnAnderson20050214

David's status

• more Column Header UI work
  • first solid, working wxPython/wxWidget implementation (Mac/Win)
  • wrote ColumnHeader addition to wxPythonDemo
  • fixed a bunch of wx-related bugs
  • added conformance to wx best practices
• for more info, see WxPythonProjectZeroPointFivePlanning^?

Morgen

• Worked on the Accounts dialog a bunch
• Fixed sharing bugs
• Ironing out content model issues, such as mismatches between class and kind hierarchies

Alec

• Started working on ZaoBaoTutorial - still a WIP, but could use feedback
• Tweaked and simplified ZaoBao, trying to make the tutorial very simple

Jed

• Fixed toolbar radio bug (working on getting it into make install)
• Changed some menus
• Fixed printing bugs
• Worked on DnD bugs. Probably won't be able to fix dragging on an icon for this release.