Apps meeting 5 April 2005

Agenda

• 0.5: Post mortem
• 0.6: Planning status
• Specs
• Task Tracking
• Other news: WWDC, OSCon...
• Open Mike...

Meeting Notes

• 0.5
  • What do we do with the Open questions? Sheila posted the debrief notes. Lisa, Katie and Philippe to translate this into a set of Action Items.
• 0.6
  • P1 SWAG: not completed yet, Philippe to meet with devs individually to go over those this week
  • Other tasks: gathering info right now
  • Objective: get to a plan by next week (Philippe)
• Specs
  • We'll use HTML
  • Specs will get checked in CVS/Subversion
  • Need to create a template (Lisa, Philippe)
  • Master List to be posted by Philippe
  • Ownership: dual dev / designer (Mimi)
  • Important: Specs need to be useful, productive tools that help us communicate and agree on what we are building.
• Task Tracking
  • Bugzilla limited for this. Philippe to see if his TRD idea can be implemented in current Bugzilla.
• Other news
  • WWDC (June, in SF): David to go
  • OSCon (August, in Portland): Python tutorial by Anthony Baxter could be interesting for all of us. Not decided yet who will go.
  • Phillip Ebby coming in 2 weeks: Ask him to do some code review and present his findings
• Open Mike
  • Python 2.4.1 (David): we should move to it.
  • QA Lab: we have 3 machines in there so far
  • Linux dev machines: coming in a couple of weeks
  • Linux: should we move to FC3 or FC4?

Actions

• Philippe and the dev team will SWAG bugs and tasks for 0.6
• Owner and proposal for fonts/borders/beveling work.
• Proposal for dnd, taking into account bugs and native behaviors.
• Katie to set performance targets/goals for 0.6

Status

Philippe

• Learning OSAF tools: Wiki, CSV, Bugzilla, Python...
• Learning Chandler, posted a First Impressions doc
• Diving into 0.6 planning (P1 bugs, tasks, ...): objective is to have a first credible view of the plan by next week

John

• JohnAnderson20050404

Jed

• Got wxWidgets 2.5.5 up and running on my machine.
• Integrated mini-calendar into wxWidgets 2.5.5.
• Worked on wxWidgets refresh problem on linux.

David

• more Column Header work:
  • added various requested features
  • fixed several small bugs
  • rewrote docs
• switched wxPython build over to Unicode
• continued work on wxPython v2.5.[4,5]
• for more info, see WxPythonProject

Alec

• Lots of calendar changes:
  • new column header
  • new calendar item shape
  • multi-day events, including dragging to move and resize
  • proper (sorted) drawing for correct stacking
• updates to VisualStyle proposal
• continuing development of AlecFlettXulVsCpia

Bryan

• Reworking attribute editors (fixing bugs, adding sample support)
• Trying to become more cross-platform efficient by sharing my source tree across machines.