Apps meeting Thursday March 9th 2006

Agenda

• Question du Jour: What issue is on the top of your head today? (10 min)
• 0.7 Planning and Progress
  • Alpha plan (15 min)
  • Bugs and Tasks (5 min) - see curves at ApplicationProject
• Misc
  • Geek Talk (5 min) - GeekTalks
  • Self Assigned Project (10 min)
• People
  • Reviews (5 min)
  • Interns (5 min) - see plan at IntershipPlan06

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Summary

• Progress
  • First round of spec review for Dashboard and Scheduling
  • 0.7alpha2 work load set for almost everyone
  • First GeekTalk held Monday. We'll continue the experiment next week.
  • Self Assigned Project Program launched
• Plan
  • Log the rest of 0.7alpha2 tasks and SWAG
  • Call for second round of spec meeting as appropriate
  • Make progress on 0.7alpha2 code

Minutes

Question du Jour

Question du Jour: What issue is on the top of your head today?

• David : Mac was in repair so playing catch up after a week of PTO
• Alec : Need to get on top of the Collection issue
• Jeffrey : Have a lot of bugs, need to find a way spending less time doing email
• Robin : Why do we have snow now while we had none all year?... Working on reference counting in wxPython.
• Jed : Posting his style doc asap
• Reid : Thinking a lot about Toolbar, think it should be another object
• Philippe : Interns hiring

0.7

Alpha plan

We reviewed the phase 1 specs for both Dashboard and Scheduling. We got through a good first pass, we'll certainly need a second pass once we get into the detailed analysis of each tasks. Area owners will log tasks first in Bugzilla and call for new meetings with PPD with a list of issues to review as appropriate.

Alec needs to create the remaining tasks to cover 0.7alpha2.

We also need a separate spec and review for Search. Need to involve Andi to make sure we make good use of PyLucene capabilities.

Bugs and Tasks

Philippe to post curves for 0.7alpha2 and 0.7 on the Apps Wiki page. Suggest to get rid of the Bug Rate graph for now (not extremelly interesting right now).

This started a discussion on how to make the Apps Team Wiki page more useful. Few in the team are using it since the data are exposed and discussed during the weekly Apps meeting. Good to have though for other teams and external contributors to peak and see what we are up to. We do use the Platform team page for instance to check out what's going on there.

Philippe did make some modifications to the page recently to be more 0.7 centric and be useful as a dashboard for the project. Contact Philippe directly if you have suggestions to make that page better.

Misc

GeekTalk^?

Last week session on DnD was useful. Thanks Jeffrey for being the guinea pig on this. We definitely need to continue.

Next time : Jed on wx Styles.

20% Self Assigned Project

Philippe presented the plan this morning at the staff meeting.

Will add a section for "current projects". People will add their projects in there themselves so that we will avoid duplicate of efforts and encourage collaboration on some projects.

Philippe to modify the page and send an email to the dev list about this.

Macs (David)

Got a new laptop. Much much faster thanks to the new bus.

Universal Binaries :

• not yet available for wx (work being done in the wx community)
• we have lot of other things to do to get the build to work for Chandler (lots of SWIG wrapped C code)
• need to schedule that before the end of 0.7, may be 0.7alpha4 (summer). David will be driving this issue (for wx).

Compilers (David)

gcc 4.1 went final. We may want to switch to that.

When? We need to be conservative so that we don't make the work of exotic Linux distros that are lagging in term of gcc support too painful (Jeffrey).

David to post something on the dev list about this.

Functional tests (John)

Bear and Heikki worked on this last week. Now functional tests are running like unit tests with the quick build.

They break easily though. We need to fix the rest of the functional tests. Right now lots are commented out.

People

Reviews

Reminder : peer reviews and manager review due tonight!

Interns

Alec, Aparna to give feedback on a couple of candidates.

We also have an OSU graduate student who's going to pick a subject for her Master project out of our list. She should be coming to see us in a month or so.

See plan.

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Status

Alec

• Lots of reviews! Took at least 2 days of this week
• Discussed collection and notification issues with Andi, and followed up via e-mail
• More code cleanup in the summary view
• added keyboard navigation to the timed events and all-day canvases
• experimenting with TurboChandler - a web-based chandler using TurboGears and the repository

Bryan

• Your status here...

Jed

• Finishing up style document
• Wrote reviews
• Went over bugzilla and prioritized
• Trying to figure out why the preview area isn't updating properly any more

Jeffrey

• Worked on Free/Busy (meetings, write up)
• Reviews
• Brain dump to bugzilla of tasks
• Talked at length with Morgen, Brian Moseley and Lisa about sharing formats and CalDAV

John

• Finished Macintosh Performance work that I started at PyCon.
• Wrote reviews
• Worked on new wxGrid features which I hope to have finished by next week.
• Continued working on getting the functional tests running smoothly.

David

• did battle without a laptop:
  • laptop replaced, courtesy of Apple
  • restored disk image, courtesy of Dave Cowen and Retrospect
• worked on bugs: 3044, 4859, 5263

Philippe

• Lots of work on intern recruiting
• Lots of 0.7alpha2 work load review with devs
• Participated to 0.7 Phase 1 spec reviews and posted notes
• Write reviews

Reid

• Work on MultiStateButton
• Added anti-aliasing support in wx and wxPython
  • learned how the tarball system works, and why you can't use new features in wx immediately

Robin

• Participated in an interview with PythonThreads^?.com about me, wxPython and the wxPython book.
• Worked with Andi and with SWIG developers to track down and fix some SWIG bugs and performance problems that were uncovered by PyLucene and wxPython with SWIG 1.3.28.
• Helped Reid in figuring out how to make changes made to wxWidgets be visible in wxPython.
• Updated wxSTC to Scintilla 1.67.
• Implemented Fix for SF Bug #1436503. Delay the start of the DnD operation in case the user just intended to click, not drag.
• Worked with Ryan Norton on correcting a bug in a prior patch of his that affects the best size of listboxes on wxGTK.
• Read a little about Cairo, the 2D drawing library. There has been some discussion about adding some wrappers for it to wxWidgets.

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