Apps meeting 14 June 2005

Agenda

• Specs
• Schedule
• Engineering Issues
• People
• Other

Summary

• Plan : Solidifying 0.5.04 work load, make progress on features and bugs
• Progress : Feature work coming in,
• Problems : Bugs coming in, we need a bug model and a strategy to avoid piling bugs or stalling feature work

Actions

• Bug Model: Philippe to produce a bug model for 0.6
• Work load: All to finalize 0.5.04 work load and plan this week

Minutes

Specs

We need to add the spec writing as tasks in the 0.5.04 and 0.5.05 timeframe.

Code review process: Philippe posted a doc on this covering the various code reviews. We'll try to keep them light through 0.5.04 since we are already under time constraint for feature writing but we need to schedule some.

Bug model: Philippe to produce a first bug model with historical data.

Schedule

We need to review the work load for everybody (for the moment, only David and Bryan have been through a complete review). At first sight though (looking at the SWAG), it's clear that we're all over extended for the July 7th date and that we need to push that date by 1 week (July 13th). We'll certainly also have to move some tasks around.

Engineering Issues

Linux machine update: see Jared's e-mail. We have a Linux machine running Ubuntu, need to ask Jared to install FC4. Bryan gave it a try and the experience was satisfactory: we can run Linux through the X Server and get the X window display on our local machine, we can share a partition through Samba so run our own Chandler Python code without having to copy stuff from machines to machines, debug is possible except may be for perf issues.

wxWidgets: Stefan was there last week. David met with him several times and we had lunch once. We shared concerns on how wxWidgets evolve (or rather the speed of it) on Mac especially. We need to get in the habit of submiting our stuff more regularly and making a renewed effort to be visible in this community.

SVN: use the sandboxes if you want, see Bear's e-mail.

Debug: John has a "Holy Grail" version on Windows (debugging Python and wxWidgets all at once). David working on the Mac version of it with Stefan.

Note from Engineering meeting: Katie signaled that the Schema API is changing. We'll need to upgrade the Blocks. Pje will do this work in a couple of weeks but we need to be prepared, i.e., don't hold big commit while the change is happening or the merge will be painful... Also we need to contact Pje in advance (now...) if we find something potentially very destabilizing in the planned changes.

People

Intern update: Brendan coming on Monday

Alec and Donn coming back next week too

Other

OSCon: (August 1 to 5) Jed, Philippe, Bryan, John to go

WWDC: David will post his notes / report on the Wiki

IRC Office Hours: QA session tomorrow (Wednesday). Please, participate actively. This can be fun! See Aparna's e-mail.

OSAF Blog: This is new, a little intimidating. feel free to participate, if in doubt, ask Ted for guidance on content and Pieter on technical guidance (how to use)

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Status

Philippe

• Commented on various 0.6 specs
• Wrote Code Review Process doc, went through a couple of iterations with the team
• Met with Stefan, very interesting talk on wxWidgets
• Reviewed 0.5.04 work load, recommended to move the milestone date back one week
• Started to dive into Python code (planning to tackle some bugs for real soon...)

John

• Tracked down why the windows launcher does run from a development branch -- turned out that chandler.exe.manifest didn't have the execut bit set.
• Fixed bug #2865: chandler.exe ignores first argument
• Fixed first argument to be the python script, not the launcher exe
• Updated the solution files so I can debug the launchers
• Worked on sorting though my list of new bugs. There is a huge new pile of mac only wxGrid bugs.
• Reviewed ItemCollection spec
• Fixed Bug #3218: Bad file descriptor error on Chandler startup with the debug build, caused by import hairballs and repository logging bugs, which I couldn't get andi interested in fixing.
• Fixed Bug #3091: Sidebar calendar selection goes away when rapidly activating/deactivating calendars
• Fixed Bug #3210: "Position out of range" when double clicking in Messages
• On at least three days I achieved no new bugs in my bugzilla list of bugs.
• I finally understand why arrow keys don't work in wxGrid

Jed

• Your status here...

David

• helped Arel get started
• resolved SVN access issues
• worked on some bugs

Alec

• Hold'en baby Holden...

Bryan

• Working on 0.5.04 bugs & tasks, but not making much progress: I fix a bug, and a new (unrelated) one gets reported.
• Guineapigging the new linux dev box - learning about remote X setup

Donn

• Vacationing in Mexico (till June 17th).