Chandler Engineering Meeting - Thursday June 8th, 2006

Next meeting will be June 22nd. Katie will run that meeting.

Alpha3

• Good progress on the Apps team side
• wx should land next week
• John a little late
• Platform team less confident, bgsync still in the branch, need to put code to fail gracefully in the stamping case
• We don't have clear visibility yet as to how much time we need to stabilize this code

Alpha4

• Specs: missing the Dashboard and Email specs. Also install spec (covers dump and reload as well)
• Specs done: stamping, sharing, search, sidebar, minical, preview

Hardware update

• Install of new Mac Intel will happen over the weekend
• Laptops arrived, Portnoy shipped
• Need to check the status on the memory upgrade, Heikki to check on this

Build system update

• Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger): QA Lab has been switched, Quick Build Linux fine, issues with the Full Build Linux
• Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake): will install once Breeze Badger stable
• Python 2.4.3: not done on Windows and Linux
• Need to finish work on the wx Tinderboxes and wx cvs/svn mirroring (Kagami)

Soc / BOSE / Interns

• Office Hour went fine
• Make sure we have a plan when mentor take vacations

List discussions that need jump start

• Performance
• Sharing format
• Specs in general
• Reenabling some of the functional tests

Vacation of people

• Philippe: away 4.5 weeks (in Europe)
• Sheila: PTO 6 and 7 of July, working remotely the following week
• Katie: away 1 week in August
• Ted: doesn't know yet (PTO June 16)
• Bear: will take holiday in the fall
• Heikki: couple of weeks in July

-- PhilippeBossut - 08 Jun 2006