Cosmo Engineering Meeting 26 Oct 2006

Agenda

• QOTF:
• Hiring
• Foxmarks postmortem?
• 0.5 Wind down
  • Cosmo bug bash
  • end user docs
  • e-mailing feature status
• 0.6 planning
  • Task breakdown page: TedLeung20061025

Notes

• Folks interested in a Foxmarks postmortem: br, bcm, jared, priscilla
• 0.5 Wind down
  • have we thought carefully enough about testing?
    • interop with other clients
    • chandler interop
    • do we have an accessible test server? [ is this qa-cosmo? ]
  • end user docs
    • lots of discussion over the meaning of the term "end-user"
    • items of concern:
      • merged Cosmo/Scooby UI -- how do existing Cosmo users find the Home collection Browser and Account Management stuff
      • calendar/recurrence UI
    • br to work on this, w/ advice from bcm
• Cosmo 0.6 planning
  • Ted has put the key feature requests from PPD/Hosted service on a task breakdown page: TedLeung20061025
  • The following people will coordinate task breakdown and estimation for features:
    • Casual Collaborator workflow - Brian Moseley
    • Sharing Format - Randy Letness
    • Timezones - Bobby Rullo
    • 1 sticky (2wks worth) of Hosted Service/Admin UI work - Travis Vachon
  • People will be working to get this done as quickly as possible.
• Adam Christian wanted to know how many people had played with the RC1 bundle because he was having problems. This lead to Mike Taylor finding some problems with the scripts that generate the build

Status

Ted

• Progress
  • Hiring
  • Management stuff
  • Mailing list summaries
  • Universal URL design meeting
  • AJAX reading
  • ApacheCon^?
• Plan
  • Hiring
  • Plan in person week
  • Cosmo 0.5 endgame
  • Cosmo 0.6 planning
  • Sharing format meeting

Brian

• Progress
  • Zarro boogs
  • Critical documentation updated
  • 0.6 sharing discussions
• Plan
  • Casual collaboration tech spec
  • Further sharing discussions

Randy

• Progress
  • Done with 0.5 bugs
  • Upgrade Hibernate, refactor integration tests in trunk
  • Start down road of 0.6 sharing CosmoZeroPointSixSharingNotes
• Plan
  • Sharing and more sharing

Bobby

• Progress
  • Done with 0.5 tasks (recurrence mostly)
  • outlined work to be done for anonymous access
  • came up with proposal for client side timezones, worked out with team
• Plan
  • work on timezones
  • work on anon access, other 0.6 stuff

Matthew

• Progress
  • Finished recurrently recurring recurrence
  • Fixed outstanding 0.5 bugs
  • Design discussion for sharing & anonymous access
• Plan
  • Fix recurrence bugs from testing
  • Documentation for recurrence code -- need extensive commenting

Bear

• Progress
  • Migrated auto-API generation script to a build server, installed java and setup cronjob to run every 12 hours.
  • Branched 0.5
  • Moved trunk to 0.6 (updated doc generation and version stamps)
  • Generated 0.5-RC1 and delivered to QA
• Plan
  • 0.5 Release
  • Finalize Maven 2.0 upgrade plan

Priscilla

• Progress
  • Cosmo 0.5 relesae notes. First draft written. Having Ted review before sending them to Pieter.
  • Cosmo 0.5 spec update and wiki update are done for now.
  • 0.6 spec written as much as I can for now. Waiting for final estimates from Ted and will review final features for 0.6, then send out first draft for review.
  • Started working on the wiki project end of last week. Made a decision to wait for new wiki server and work with Jared on a regular basis start on the wiki project.
  • Help Pieter with branding exercises.

• Plans
  • Unified URL - work with Mimi to update mock ups. Will review updates on the list.
  • General item support wireframes - Planning to review with developers for Thursday.
  • Work out where to put the Admin console links from Cosmo. Need to sketch out ideas first then go over with Mimi.
  • Finalize on on Cosmo 0.6 with Ted and present to the team. Update information on the wiki.
  • Still working through the punchlist of non-developement tasks, sent it to the list and updating my progress. This item will be done when 0.5 is officially released.
  • Cosmo landing pages - working with Pieter on upcoming 0.5 launch for landing pages.
  • Wiki/portal project - To start working with Jared and creating the wiki fresh from a new server.
  • Continue to help Pieter with branding work.

Jared

• Progress
• Plans

Travis

• Progress
  • Dojo user list widget
  • Dojo user modification widget (used for new user, modify user, subscribe)
  • Home directory browsing (except tickets, may be finished today)
• Plans
  • Error messages
  • Polish in preparation for merging

-- TedLeung - 25 Oct 2006