Cosmo Engineering Meeting 31 Aug 2006

Agenda

• QOTF: What should we be using this meeting for
• New meetings - Release and Bug council meetings
• Hiring
• Outside interest
• Cosmo Planning update
• Coordination between folks

Notes

• QOTF
  • Brian
    • want to undestand what other people are doing -- the new meeting format helps a lot wit this, but not totally
    • sometimes need to communicate what he's doing in detail
    • wants to make sure that the meeting minutes are indexed somewhere that is findable.
  • Bobby
    • sometimes we have mailing list threads that aren't converging/concluding, and sometimes a bit of chat in the meeting can help unblock the list discussion (as long as that bit also goes back to the list)
    • discussions of short term tactics
  • Matthew
    • wants to be up on what others are doing
    • social aspect is important
  • Bear - wants to know what others are up to
  • Priscilla
    • wants to raise issues and get them closed on
    • wants people to ask about planning
  • Jared
    • social aspect of meeting is a big part
    • tracking is also important
  • Mikeal - ditto, everyone stole his comments
  • Katie
    • surface issues that people should be talking to each other about -- sometime people don't even realize they should be talking to each other about a topic
    • bring up issues
    • social aspect is important
  • Ted - ditto

• New meetings - the Cosmo engineering meeting will be every other week. On the off weeks, but in the same time slots, we will have 2 1hr meetings related to release topics and Bug Council

• Cosmo Planning update - Ted wanted eveyone to be aware of http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-August/001424.html which is a public view into the roadmap planning process for Cosmo

• General Coordination discussion
  • Brian wanted to "brag" that in the course of doing the Hibernate integration, he fixed 5-6 outstanding Cosmo bugs because the new architecture made it easy to do so
  • Brian has been looking at the Google home page widgets and wants to write one that will yank data out of Cosmo
  • Bobby is working on a performance test to quantify the improvement (we hope) on large PROPFINDs. Mikeal volunteered some test code that he has, and Jared pointed out that Bug:5996 has the whole sad story on big PROPFINDs

Status

Ted

• Progress
  • Worked with Suzette on hiring workflow
  • Started phone screening candidates, some of them coming up for second interviews
  • Drive hibernate integration discussion
  • Work on Cosmo roadmap with PPD
  • Got final version of OSAF CCLA back from counsel and over to SimDesk^?
  • Drive bugzilla component consolidation
  • Helped Jared test service911 workflow
  • Branding brainstorm meeting
  • Start discussion to conclude open e-mail threads
• Plan
  • Hiring - phone screens and second interviews
  • Make sure that Bobby and Matt are unblocked
  • Work on Cosmo roadmap with PPD
  • Start to close out open e-mail threads
  • Google Summer of Code final evaluation for OSAF
  • Start writing cosmo-dev mailing list summary
  • Start looking at Sharing Format / EIM discussions
  • Start working on nailing down a calendar date for Cosmo 0.5
  • Get bugilla components merged and bugs retargeted

Brian

• Progress
  • continued integrating hibernate model and dao layers into service and protocol layers - completed cmp, atom and basic webdav support, began caldav
  • looked into the idea of providing a google gadget for cosmo
• Plan
  • complete caldav integration
  • complete admin ui integration
  • resolve list of open issues (see BrianMoseley20060822)
  • replace old dao and model classes with proposed ones
  • merge sandbox into trunk
  • 2nd round phone screens with hiring candidates
  • design session for cosmo target users

Bobby

• Progress
  • Did as much merge work as could be done before hibernate stuff is integrated
  • Integrated EdBindl^?'s work on pagination
• Plan
  • Do a quick performance test (PROPFIND with >4k resources) of hibernate vs. JCR to make sure we are on the right track
  • ???
  • Once hibernate is in place enough, start implementing RPCService API with new Service calls.

Matthew

• Progress
  • Retooled job description for Web UI dev position
  • Mocked up cal event lozenge gradient with transparent PNG
  • Perf testing for AlphaImageLoader^? filter in IE
  • Moving OSAF's JS Date lib into Dojo -- patch to finish out incomplete dojo.date.add
  • Tests for dojo.date.add
  • Updated CSS to use Lucida Grande -- fall back to Verdana, Arial, sans
• Plan
  • Submit patch and tests to Dojo for dojo.date.diff
  • Lozenge work -- get PNG gradient working
  • Jump-to date

Bear

• Progress
  • Setup sandbox for simdesk (cosmo snapshot and snarf snapshot)
  • Test build Cosmo/Scooby merge from trunk
  • Test build Cosmo hibernate
  • Build a Cosmo-0.5-hibernate snapshot for jared to preview
  • Worked with Ted/Priss on Infrastructure todo
• Plan
  • Continue doing daily test builds of Cosmo trunk and Cosmo-0.5-hibernate
  • Implement any identified infrastructure changes
  • Figure out what tinderbox changes will be required for merged Cosmo

Priscilla

• Progress
  • Working with Sheila/Ted and follow up on next steps of the Cosmo roadmap
  • Continue with Scooby/Cosmo content merge on the wiki
  • Need to follow up with updating the Scooby 0.3 specs to Cosmo 0.5 - no progress on this yet, but is on the radar.
  • Following up with some open issues on the Cosmo/Design list.
  • Trying to understand why there is a question mark beside my name?

• Plan
  • Gathering information about BCM's wishlist and to work up an agenda and set of goals for the design session to go over how to understand the Cosmo server side target users.
  • Work with Sheila on next steps for the Cosmo stickie plan
  • Created a punchlist of non-developement tasks, sent it to the list and updating my progress
  • To remove the question mark from my name.

Jared

• Progress
  • Milestone roadmap of Hosted Service proceeding; servers as best-available list. Continuing to tweak osaf.us milestone map as Cosmo roadmap sorts out.
  • Sheila feels up to speed on core Hosted Service roadmap and needs. Also reviewed metrics and Sheila now "gets it".
  • Virtual server setup progressing. Haven't yet tested a Hibernate tarball (provided by Bear).
  • Have reaquainted myself with build of all current products
  • Obtained modest consensus that Chandler will avoid reversions of data after a server backup by implementing client-checked version ids
• Plans
  • Install running copy of hibernate on lab-hibernate.ops.osaf.us
  • Build MySQL VM to point Hibernate test build at
  • Determine if backup/restore is essentially the same as sharing format based export/import; open thread
  • Obtain resolution of the password in CMP patch thread
  • Determine if batch of app-distribution features will go in before Beta: db indirection, separate profile db, session persistence, distributed caches, stateless, load balancer integration
  • Enhance event submission prototype without needing any Chandler/Cosmo features

-- TedLeung - 30 Aug 2006