services, repository, dev platform mtg 19 July 2005

Agenda

• hardwire uuid's for built in kinds? (may help solve some sharing problems, set us up for schema evolution) -- Also, hardwire uuids for other items such as Home and Work 'facets'.
• office visit for remote folks?

• open issues? anything blocking?
  • sets/collections
  • i18n
  • sharing/webdav
  • recurrence/icalendar/timezone
  • cert management/ssl/tls
  • parcel flattening

Status

Andi

• Progress
  • reviewed i18n document, met with Brian K to get i18n task list
  • added UString and BString types to core schema (i18n)
  • API docs for PyLucene, docs submitted to pylucene-dev for review
  • worked on problems related to repo files on different platforms
  • assorted bug fixes
• Plans
  • Finish MessageFormat and ChoiceFormat for PyICU (i18n)
  • Create Localized Sort indexer (i18n)
  • Leverage PyICU for textual Lob encoding (i18n)
  • Update PyLucene to index unicode attributes (i18n)
  • continue working on Bug#3380
  • generalize full text indexing to all attributes
  • add a RefDict (a 'dict' ref collection)
  • move bi-ref implementation to descriptors (perf)
  • bug fixes as needed

Brian Kirsch

• Progress
  • reviewed and incorporating feedback on 18n proposal and .6 i18n spec
  • Fixed bug #3493 and #3300
  • Created initial .6 detailed task list for OSAF team
  • Refining gettext api .po format filesystem layout based on conversation with pje
  • Identified new Chandler file pathing issue with non-ascii file path and update .6 task list to address problem
  • Reviewed CPIA code include the Atrribute Editors to discover any i18n issues that may have been overlook. Discovered that attribute redirection will require localization since the redirection is displayed in the UI as a summary table header.
  • Defined first pass of i18n Chandler schema changes. Scheduled a meeting for Tuesday at 11:00am to discuss.

• Plans
  • Address Schema localization deficiances and incorporate plan to i18n specs
  • Further refine .6 i18n task definitions
  • Get final sign off on Internationalization Proposal and .6 i18n spec
  • Begin working with QA to define a long term i18n test plan
  • fix bug #3394

Lisa

• Progress
  • New version of WebDAV RFC (Draft Standard): http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-webdav-rfc2518bis-07.txt
• Plans
  • Hand off responsibilities before travelling

Ted

• Progress
  • Checked in my stuff to ItemCollection^?_0.6 branch
  • Talked with John about how to do ItemCollection^? integration
  • Talked with Morgen about how to to sharing/item collection integration
  • Discussed i18n query issues with Brian Kirsch
  • Worked with Morgen on photo viewing and flickr refactoring

• Plans
  • Help John with ItemCollections^? as needed
  • Work on filtering

Heikki

• Progress
  • Caught up with email and IT and QA status
• Plans
  • Get updated with services status
  • Get started on ACL stuff, mostly reading and refreshing knowledge
  • Set date for ACL presentation (WebDAV, CalDAV, iCal, repository) - 3-4 weeks from now (when Lisa gets back)
  • Set date for Accessibility presentation (need to invite Aaron Leventhal to give the talk)
  • Check accessibility status, decide on monitoring and next steps
  • Decide M2Crypto release schedule
  • Publish Release Management responsibilities wiki page
  • Talk to Katie about http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/KatieParlante20050701
  • Talk to alecf about http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/PyXPCOMExperiments
  • Talk to pbossut about Tbox

Morgen

• Progress
  • Implemented alarm/status filtering in shared collections
  • Met with Ted RE: Sharing and ItemCollections
  • Added Photo Kind with Ted, including new AttributeEditor for LobImage
  • Rewrote photo servlet
  • Added Lob servlet which returns Lob attribute values, complete with Content-Type and Content-Length headers set correctly
  • Parcel loader can now assign a Lob value from an external file
  • Added more methods to headless.py, and integrated them into the PyShell window within Chandler
  • Added a menu item to activate the webserver
• Plan
  • Sharing XML:
    • i18n
    • investigate use of repository native XML format
    • move chandler XML down into a subcollection on the server
    • Unpublish
    • Unsubscribe
  • Or, if new ItemCollections are done, work on integrating them into Sharing

PJE

• Progress
  • Time off.
  • Found possible simple solution for reloading Python modules without needing the changes proposed in bug 3134
  • Improved backward compatibility for "parcel:" implementation
  • Participate in i18n proposal(s) discussions
• Plan
  • Finish "parcel:" port, try to remove multiple passes from parcel loader
  • Projects:ParcelFlatteningProposal
  • Implement reloading idea
  • Prototype "platform" proposals (startup, wakeup callers, etc.)

Katie

• Progress
  • pto most of the week
• Plan
  • meet with apps team and bkirsch to come to agreement on i18n tasks
  • meet with twl about addressing
  • dev platform plan for the rest of the release

Bear

• Progress
  • Milestone 0.5.04 released
  • SVN Integration for Bonsai
• Plan
  • libxml2 upgrade to 2.6.20 - working on win32 build issues
  • start planning for Instrumentation Framework
  • Try and get my bug count down to a much smaller number

Jeffrey

• Progress
  • Only had a few work days last week due to personal life issues
  • Several good meetings about recurrence
  • Wrote lots more tests and functionality for THISANDFUTURE modifications, not quite done.
• Plans
  • Finish THISANDFUTURE modification tests and logic
  • Work on implementing proxies and testing how well they work in UI

Grant

• Progress
  • zanshin:
    • Completed MKTICKET/DELTICKET implementation for m4.
    • Post-m4: cleaned up documentation strings, wrote a bunch of unit tests, refactored the xml handling code.
  • Timezone spec: Added sample code, and section on interaction with current Chandler UI (e.g., mini-calendar).
  • Reviewed and commented on 0.6 i18n spec.
  • Started work on storing/retrieving default timezone in/from the repository.
• Plans
  • Finish default timezone work
  • SWAGs for m5.