Apps meeting Thursday March 30th 2006

Summary

• Progress
  • Progress on all main features for 0.7alpha2
    • Collection work
    • Free / busy (exporting)
    • Scheduling : receiving stamped events in Chandler operational
    • Styles document posted
• Plan
  • Continue to monitor 0.7alpha2 tasks and bugs count
  • Philippe to organize meeting on Build Policy
  • wx tarball : fix the remaining functional test breakage so that we can move forward
  • Jed to hold a Styles doc review

Agenda and Notes

• Question du Jour: Is there something you did last year that you wish you would have done differently? (5 min)
  • Alec - taken more hands on approach to collections
  • Philippe - more hands on approach to bug count
  • Jed - more on top of email discussions
• 0.7 Planning and Progress
  • Big Features update (15 min) : please prepare a short statement for the rest of the team of where we stand (focus on alpha2) and potential road blocks :
    • Dashboard (Alec, John, David)
      • not much ui, mostly under the hood collections work
      • tasks entered in bugzilla
      • Katie writing mini-dashboard spec
      • David trying to fix functional tests
      • David planning to do fewer incremental updates
    • Free / Busy (Jeffrey)
      • Working on exporting
      • Importing should be easy
      • On track to be ready for 0.7
    • Scheduling (Bryan)
      • On track for alpha 2
    • Toolbar (Reid)
      • Work centering around markup bar
      • Looking to replace some of the toolbars in the app
      • Should have markup bar by end of next week
      • Some question as to how to list bugs (separate bugs or using parent bug)
    • Styles (Jed)
      • Sent out doc looking for comments
      • First checkin of style code coming tomorrow
      • Need to enter some tasks into bugzilla for alpha 3
      • Will do a code review in place of Monday's Geek Talk
  • Bugs and Tasks (10 min) - See the updated curves on the Apps page. Comments?
    • Philippe has updated the curve -- going down, but still too high
  • SWAG (10 min) - Is there anything that's required is alpha2 that does not have a Bugzilla task logged? Please think about it and we'll discuss during the meeting.
    • No task for search
    • Philippe has been busy with reviews, but he will do a pass on bugs
    • Michael/Aparna will look at alpha 2 tasks to determine if we reached code complete or not. Bug Council will decide whether to punt or slip.
• Misc
  • Build Policies (5 min) - We'll have a meeting on Thursday April 6th, 3pm. I need to call the meeting and create a Wiki page with some rationale on the system and a couple of alternatives with pros and cons.
    • Not much progress, but Philippe is writing a page for the meeting
    • There are build errors that it would be nice to remove
  • Geek Talks (5 min) - Lisa to talk about Distributed Identities
    • Lisa's talk rescheduled to the next week (Monday April 10th, 2pm)
    • Jed will lead a review of styles instead (Monday April 3rd, 2pm)
• People (5 min)
  • Reviews - It's starting now. Everyone will be reviewed by the end of next week.
    • Happening over the next week
  • Interns - We made an offer to one candidate (Chandler). Another one here today for interview (QA). More to phone screen. Darshana to visit us Monday.
    • Ed Bindl has accepted -- will begin in May
• Other
  • Robin's book is available

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Status

Alec

• fixed more calendar keyboard navigation - made up/down/left/right behave more sanely
• fixed Bug#4559 - added a "view xx hours" menuitem to calendar
• Made the triage column be a combo box so users can't enter bogus data
• fixed Bug#5451 - cleaned up InclusionExclusionCollection's setup
• held a vote on InExCollection's new name
• Interviewed an intern candidate

Bryan

• Added support for military time input, and a couple of other shortcuts.
• Pair-programmed a refactoring of ICalendar import with Jeffrey (actually, he did the hard parts) to provide common code I could use when receiving email+events.
• Added mechanism to the email service that calls the refactored ICalendar code when receiving ICS attachments.
• Designing block-switching mechanism for the detail view (for date "expando")
• Helped Ted with updating the Flickr parcel's detail view

Jed

• Your status here...

Jeffrey

• Refactored ICalendar import with Bryan to make that code usable by both sharing and email
• CASH meeting
• Worked on pinning down timezone widget requirements
• Helped a guy interested in using vobject to understand how to work with vcards
• Free/busy publish work mostly done (still need to do subscribe, tweak UI a bit)
• Free/Busy spec writeup
• Interview

John

• Worked on several bugs related to adding new collections to the sidebar collection. Refactored ModifyCollectionEvent to simplify it and fix these and other problems. Unfortunately Alec replaced some ModifyCollectionEvents with a different new event. The net result was a collision that I'm still trying to recover from. I hope to replace Alec's new event with my new simplified event that handles not just new collection, but all collections added to the sidebar.
• Took off most of the week while my son was visiting.
• I will be back in California late Friday, 31 March.

David

• worked on problems with functional tests:
  • identified and fixed 2-3 wxMac-specific crashes (for tarball 39)
  • passed some suggestions for minor changes to QAUITestAppLib off to Dan Steinicke
    • all have been adopted
  • leveraged Alec's efforts in determining failure characteristics:
    • sidebar emulate_typing no longer works
    • platform-neutral
• wx work:
  • fixed build problem caused by wxDataViewCtrl changes
  • released tarball 38, with caveats
  • updated various wxChandler wiki pages
• continued work on wxGrid - wxColumnHeader integration:
  • worked on vertical orientation implementation (but not enough)

Philippe

• Wrote final reviews
• Managed intern hiring
• Triaged 0.7 incoming bugs

Reid

• "something you did last year that you wish you would have done differently?"
  • Done a web project in Rails instead of VBScript!
• MultiStateButton
  • put up rev 1 for review via Bugzilla
  • lots of good feedback from Robin and Alec. Rev 2 will go up today
    • rev 2 has a bug, but it's in an "expansion" area, and can be fixed later.
    • rev 2, assuming it passes muster with Alec, will go in tonight
    • with MultiStateButton in, I can rework the markup bar to use it
• Toolbars
  • I've been reading more about toolbars and their problems on the wx mailing lists
  • Assuming the remainder Markup bar work is short, focus will now be exclusively on toolbar

Robin

• Some XRCed improvements.
• Released wxPython 2.6.3.0
• Reviewed Reid's MultiStateButton class.
• Worked on issues in the new release found by the community.
• Worked on improvements to my release build system and also stream-lining the adding of new build hosts.
• Helped bear with SWIG build issues.

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