Chandler Engineering Meeting - September 14th, 2006

Agenda

• Alpha4 : Code Freeze is Tuesday 19th. Update on Apps and Platform. (Philippe - 10 min)
• Alpha5 and beyond : Update on this (Philippe - 10 min)
• Build : Heikki and Bear to update the group on virtualization (Bear - 10 min)
• Functional Tests : Lots of problems with Tinderbox since a week. Running the tests is becoming more difficult. We need to address that. (Philippe, all - 10 min)
• Release Management : Status on the release management doc. (Heikki - 10 min)

Minutes

Alpha4

• Apps team will need more time for email, couple of days at least
• Dashboard (as of alpha4) will be in, minus recurring event architectural issues
• Stamping as annotation: Grant's status not clear at that point
• Sharing URL issue (Morgen): we can't use the ticket that Chandler publishes in Cosmo. Some discussion going on on the "Magic URL". Meeting on Monday @11am to review all the possible solutions. Likely to be punted (of too big). Could sneak it in alpha4 if lucky.
• Bear in vacation next week, Heikki filling up for him
• Conclusion: we'll be late by a couple of days, need to wait Monday to get better data from Grant and Morgen before posting a clear final date

Alpha5 and beyond

• Philippe adding tasks to alpha5 and alpha6. 0.7 Release is just a parking place.
• What about after alpha6? Alpha6 is the Preview. We need 6 weeks of debug before going live so, working backward from end of March, that means that alpha6 code freeze needs to be mid February. We need to cut features early (now) so that we secure this. Potential candidates: user def attribute, labelling, iMip, accessiblity.

Build

• We have one wx box (Mac) running but without visualization
• Bear fixing the static IP and VNC issues with IT

Functional Tests

• Lots of problems with Tinderbox since a week. Running the tests is becoming more difficult. We need to address that.
• Proposal for the network failure from Heikki
• Logs : making them easier to navigate
• Disable tests on Flickr parcel temporarily
• Need a discussion on dev on this. Philippe to start it.

Release Management

• Heikki made progress on the doc. We have 3 docs currently that are embryons of that.

-- PhilippeBossut - 14 Sep 2006