Apps meeting Thursday February 9th 2006

Agenda

• Question du Jour
• 0.7 Planning and Progress
• Misc
• People

Summary

• Progress :
  • Tons of progress on the Design front.
  • Bug triaging pretty much done. Prioritization ditto. Some SWAG done.
  • 0.7 bugs started to be fixed. Early prototyping and ideas for Dashboard.
  • 0.6.1 shipped!
• Plan :
  • Continue progress on 0.7 tasks and design
  • SWAG 0.7 bugs
  • Create a Wiki page for "Geek Talk: subjects for Apps meeting (Philippe)

Minutes

Question du Jour

Thoughts about Mitch's governance email?

• Bryan : none of it was a surprise really
• Alec : surprise that there was no controversy
• Reid and pretty much everyone nodding to Alec's comment
• Philippe : Like the consensus building, stewardship model. Worries that too much chatter could kill energies.

0.7

Progress

Progress last week on the following :

• 0.6.1 done! Thanks Bryan for fixing the last bug.
• Triaging bugs : Looks like we're converging on a well identified subset for bugs (especially for dogfood calendaring bugs). Couple of controversies between Dev and Design on some priorities but we worked them out.
• Hints : Checked in, used by the calendar, next step is Monday meeting on Notifications and Collections.
• Section prototype : Alec implemented a prototype (demoed this morning). John has some ideas using other wxWdigets. Philippe to call for a meeting to review all this.

0.7 Phases for Main Features

Sheila describes the current thinking from the PPD team on how the big feature tenets could be cut in sub projects or phases.

The initial idea is to try to cut the big tenets in chunks that can be phased to users in a way that will allow to inform the design and be somewhat usable. Sheila will email the dev list about this.

We discusses how to link that to milestones. We think it's up to us (dev team) to pick and choose from the phases and decide what the first milestone will be.

Clearly, it's important for all of us to participate to the upcoming dev list thread on the subject.

iMIP

Grant is the owner of that feature work. We may actually not do this since the interop is not a primary focus. We will however try not to reinvent the wheel so may be implementing a subset of iMIP will do for 0.7.

Component owners

Didn't have time to cover that during the meeting. We need to review the current list and meet to decide owners.

Misc

Didn't have time to cover that during the meeting

People

Internship : descriptions reviewed, need to be posted in places interns will see.

Reviews : date approaching. we are going to be writing this in 2 weeks from now.

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Status

Alec

• Made a basic Sections implementation, and added the ability to Collapse/Expand - learned a lot about how the grid's attribute editors work
• Implemented the first cut at the new Hints architecture - Improved performance back to 0.6 levels (probably just by re-enabling some previously broken hint)
• fixed bug 4413 - nicer "fyi" display in the calendar
• made a proposal to the dev list about "Attribute Collators"
• Broke, and then fixed some functional tests

Bryan

• Fixed a few bugs, including the last 0.6.1 blocker
• Learning about running functional tests

Philippe

• Lots of 0.7 bug triaging and prioritization
• Talk to most devs about their short term plans
• Posted descriptions of Internship position, got them reviewed
• Bug Council duties : 0.6.1 and untargetted bugs triage

Jed

• Fixed Bug#4745 (app icon wrong on Windows)
• Fixed Bug#4669 (visual changes in minical)
• Worked on menus on the Mac
  • Moved 'Quit' menu item on the Mac
  • Working on moving 'About' menu item
  • Working on removing double Help menus and moving the Window menu
• Made new visual draft for Mimi
• Was out of office finishing up jury duty

Jeffrey

• Office Expenses WG planning
• new, more convenient vobject API work
• vobject PyCon/BayPiggies presentation writing, learned about S5 templates
• drag and drop ics into Chandler feature
• ietf-caldav list emails about subsets of recurring events on CalDAV servers

John

• Fixed bug #5113: menu item mishandling (mac debug build) fires assert and launch failure
• Wrote Collections document
• Fixed bug #5076: incorrect highlighting of collections during drag-drop, when there are many collections, which turned out to be a bug in Jed's hover code.
• Bug #3945: items hidden in the summary table view under the header was fixed by my fix for bug #3994
• Successfully set up gdb on Mac to fix bug #5121. It was pretty easy and very useful. Let me know if you need some help with it.
• Fix bug #5121: Skins menu exposes a widget crash on mac
• Found what looks like a simple solution to but #2375: wxGrid can't be used without scrollbars and it's many variants, e.g. #4004: Cannot edit a collection name when the scrollbar is displayed. I hope to check it in in a day or two.
• I'm going to be out of town from 20 February until 3 April. I'll be at Pycon from 22 February until 1 March, and I'll be in Utah the remainder of the time.

David

• swagged wx bugs
• released wx tarball 262-35
• fixed 3 wx bugs
• fixed 2-3 wx bugs in wx CVS
• fought Mac laptop problems:
  • convinced Apple Tech to spring for out-of-warrantee motherboard replacement
  • scheduled to coincide with my vacation (18 Feb - 04 March)
• updated wx to expat v2.0 (within wxChandler)
  • scheduled for submission 13 Feb or thereabouts
• built wx contrib xcode subproject
• updated wxChandler wiki pages

Reid

• Wrote up MarkupBarImplementationNotes to help define my attack on the MarkupBar icons
• reading existing classes like ToolbarItem and DetailStampButton
• talked with Robin about BitmapButton and how to change the MarkupBar buttons
• hope to have something to show this week, with "real" version over the next week

Robin

• Continuing to track and test SWIG 1.3.28 CVS.
• Working on making key events more consistent across platforms.
• Preparing for a wxPython 2.6.3 release.
• Ongoing support of community and problem resolution.
• Answered some questions and other support for John, Jed and Reid.