Apps meeting Thursday May 18th 2006

Agenda

• Question du Jour (10 min): What was your Sprint highlight?
• 0.7alpha2
  • Alpha2 status (10 min): We're down to 5 blocking bugs. If you have one assigned to you or a review assigned to you, please act promptly. Also, stay alert on bugs coming in. This is the highest priority in the next 2 days.
• 0.7alpha3
  • Big Features update (20 min): Let's talk about the alpha3 plan for those :
    • Dashboard (Alec)
    • Free / Busy (Jeffrey)
    • Scheduling (Bryan)
    • Toolbar (Reid)
    • Styles / CPIA (John)
    • wx (Robin)
• Misc
  • SoC / BOSE (5 min) - We may end up with 3 students on SoC and 2 on BOSE (a similar program by GeekLogix, an Indian venture).

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Summary

• Progress
  • 0.7alpha2 nearly finished : couple of blocking bugs left
  • Sprint week was a great success
• Plan
  • Ship 0.7alpha2!
  • Start 0.7alpha3 : review bugs and tasks, SWAG and rebalance workload

Meeting Notes

Sprint highlights

• It was good, nice to all be in the same room
• Great to have Robin and other remote folks present
• Perhaps we will move apps team desks around a bit, now that Alec and Jed and David have left
• Talk on the ways collections work
• Great to meet everyone

0.7 alpha2 - nearly finished

• We're close, but not quite there, 10 bugs, 4 are documentation bugs. We need to get these fixed ASAP.
• Alec has two, one is awaiting review, the other may need to be handed off to Bryan or Jeffrey
• There are a variety of column header resize bugs, David submitted a patch that probably fixes some but not all of the problems. The other resize issues are not alpha2 blockers.

0.7 alpha3 - starting very soon

• Alpha3 will be driven by performance enhancements (and fixing performance regressions) and getting background sync in. We're not expecting much dashboard experimentation in alpha3.
• No new UI for background sync beyond what Morgen's doing (in alpha3).
• Lower priorities that would be great if they fit in, but take a back seat to performance and background sync:
  • Changing lozenges is on the list, but will take back seat to performance
  • Sharing "world" to the server, making re-subscribing really easy
  • Fixing dashboard problems, adding new dashboard features
• Stamping is Grant's priority for alpha3, recurrence stamping needs to work
• PJE will continue working on migration
• Brian Kirsch will be working on email and i18n and l10n

Summer of Code interns

• 4 SoC interns, three working on Chandler
  • Contacts, mentored by Grant
  • PCA, and automation mentored by Philippe
• 2 contributors from BOSE, training program paid for by GeekLogics, from India
  • we don't yet know what they'll be working on

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Status

Alec

• stopgap for Bug#5818 - prevent 'all' from being activated because of wacky set magic
• fix Bug#5889 - TestSharing^? broke because of non-collections in the sidebar
• fix Bug#1937 - hacky way to add column header images
• fix Bug#5872 - recover 'mine'ness of items when their collections are deleted
• fix Bug#5899 - make filtered collections properly add the Trash
• gave 2 talks on Collections - to chandler and scooby teams
• talked over some details of TurboChandler's repository JSON API with scooby team
• worked on collections document
• fixed Bug#5920 - trash only displaying when 'all' filter is selected - another trash edge case with collection set algebra

Jeffrey

• Conversations with Grant and Andi about sets, indexes, and possible simplifications in collections
• Got an initial version of subzilla out
• Invested time in getting the Cosmo running from Subversion on my Windows machine
• Started working on freebusy using freebusy reports in preparation for Calconnect's Interop focus on freebusy
• Fixed Bug#5815 and Bug#5856, reuse freebusy tickets when possible and always display the read-only ticket, not the read-write

John

(status for two weeks)

• Fix Bug#5716: "Add Additional Views" menu item not working r=andi
• Fix Bug#5870: I broke the EVDB parcel r=Grant
• Fix Bug#5877: TestAdditionalViews functional test r=rae
• Fix Bug#5878: "import * only allowed at module level" r=morgen
• Tracked down Bug#5877: TestTableSelection functional test doesn't run on Linux
• Worked on Bug#5243, Bug#5784, Bug#5839: All are caused by wx Layout problem
• Narrowed down the source of Bug#5611: wxPython tarball 39 breaks functional tests
• Updated CPIA task page
• I'll be on vacation during the last half week of May (31 May through 4 June) for my son's high school graduation and to visit friends.

• Fix Bug#5219: Paste doesn't work in the subscribe/accounts dialog.
• Fix bug uncovered by fix for Bug#5219: Paste doesn't work in the subscribe/accounts dialog in which the splash screen never get's destroyed so all events are sent to it.
• Fix bug uncovered by fix for Bug#5219: Paste doesn't work in the subscribe/accounts dialog in which the performance tests fail on tinderbox.
• Fix bug related to recent fixes to Bug#5219. The latest problem is: Context menus don't work in account dialogs on Mac. After this fix the delete, backspace and return keys now work in dialogs on Macintosh.
• Worked on Bug#5243, Bug#5784, Bug#5839: All are caused by wx Layout problem. All the quick fixes don't work
• Spent some time on Chandler UI tasks
• Got multiple windows working in Chandler
• Rejected patch fix for Bug#5840: Column resizing not working correctly, since I couldn't build the grid demo with the patch. David gave me an updated patch that I still need to review.

Markku

• Made a few changes to the functional tests of Chandler for testing unicode support
• Made changes to wx, wxPython, and Chandler to enable the translation of Chandler GUI to accommodate locale settings
• Investigated the use of XRC constructed dialogs in Chandler and prepared a plan to make them accommodate locale settings

Philippe

Covering the last 2 weeks

• Tried my wit (unsuccessfully) on writing functional tests during the Sprint
• Sprint meetings on Build, i18n, CPIA and Collections
• Monitored alpha2 and other Bug Council duties
• Tested and logged bugs
• Alpha3 planning activities
• Followed up on summer interns (offices, machines, ranked SoC candidates, started evaluating BOSE candidates)
• Enjoyed the Sprint social events

Reid

• Fixed Bug#5850 "Markup Bar functional tests are disabled" during testing sprint
• Fixed Bug#5788 "Markup Bar buttons do not show tooltips"
• Fixed Bug#5787 "Markup Bar blanks out when dissimilarly marked items are clicked"
  • This is not completely fixed, but is working faster than it was
  • Should be revisited when we do a performance-oriented release
• Fixed Bug#5786 "Markup Bar buttons have a white background"
  • Hm, haven't marked this fixed yet. Should do that.
  • Got fixed *accidentally* when above fix for Bug#5787 was checked in[!]
  • Needless to say, this is not an optimal situation. More investigation would be good.
• Forced TedLeung to listen to many episodes of The Sopranos as I watched them in the hotel room.
• Bought a 320 GB external drive to complete the 2-month recovery of my G5
  • This should make my compile times faster.
  • brings me up to the same speed as the slowest Mac Apple sells now, maybe.

Robin

• Today is Mount St. Hellens day!
• Worked on diagnosing Bug#5219, discussed possible solutions with John, and worked on figuring out why some of those solutions didn't work.
• Helped Markku learn about adding wrappers for C++ classes to wxPython that are able to have methods overloaded in derived classes implemented in Python. Also reviewed and guided his work on wx.PyLocale.
• Discovered why there are build errors on Tiger, and also tracked down a fix. (It is a simple configure change in Python.) Created Bug#5915 and assigned to Bear.
• Added a bit of code to SWIG to allow it to do the wx renaming internally instead of requiring a separate pass to process the XML output from SWIG and then running SWIG again.
• Fixed a bug in the wxBitmapButton XRC handler.
• Ported XRCed to the wx namespace.
• Various cummunity support activities.

Bryan

• It's also "International Museum Day" and "Visit Your Relatives Day", which'd be especially convenient if you have relatives in a museum (this is really a shout-out to James Abbott McNeill Whistler; some sources also give today as his mother's birthday).
• No 0.7alpha2 bugs left
• Still trying to find a workaround for the wx bug causing Bug#5669; unsuccessful so far.
• Working with Reid to find a better solution to the stamping-rebuilds-the-DV-at-a-weird-time issue.
• Implemented a first cut at the startup options dialog

-- PhilippeBossut - 18 May 2006