Sprints, January 2006

OSAF is planning an in-house gathering the week of Jan 17-20. OSAF remote staff members will be in town, and a few volunteers and friends have been invited to join us. We think of this as a trial run for similar events that will be open to more people. We're planning two sprint days.

Chandler extension parcels (Wednesday, 18 Jan)

• developer documentation
• Recent CPIA documentation:
  • Four Key Concepts: Widgets, Blocks, Collections and BlockEvents
  • An Introduction to Blocks: As Seen at Chandler Startup
  • BlockEvents

list of projects

• setuptools parcel (Mike and PJE)
• rdf import/export (Katie)
  • Notation3, n3 sample data
  • http://simile.mit.edu/ (Piggy Bank)
• improved flickr (Ted and John)
• parse hCalendar class events from a webpage (Philippe and David).
  • hCalendar spec
• XML-RPC and repository editor (Alec)
• Survey feedback parcel (Jeffrey and Reid)
• Bugzilla parcel (Jed)
• IMAP Server Parcel (Morgen and Brian K)
• EVDB/eventful (Grant)
• Quicksilver, Dashboard integration (Ted and Morgen)

list of project ideas

• integrate with web 2.0 data
  • upcoming.org
  • yahoo
  • salesforce.com
  • ... etc.
• calendar data sync with Apple iSync
• jabber client
• exchange sync (talk directly to outlook exchange)
• backup and restore tool (back up data on collection by collection basis)
• ups/fedex package tracker (a "parcel" parcel!)
• structural tension charting
• address book
• im presence manager
• irc client
• parcel manager (keep track of what extension parcels are installed)
• extend/improve amazon parcel
• ecco sync
• native mac, win certificates
• http proxy (get history in repository, etc.)
• thumbnail summary view
• outline summary view
• osx notifications via growl

Chandler automated tests (Friday, 20 Jan)

• ChandlerAutomatedTestSystem

list of test ideas

• Create a new event and make it recur daily. (Grant)
• Do a complete review of repository unit tests, they are antiquated
• Performance tests for email (send/receive)
• Mock cosmo for functional and unit tests (Jeffrey)
• More generally, mock servers for unit tests
• Endurance stress tests for sharing (try to share and share and share)
• Tests for sample parcels (only one flickr test right now)
• More i18n tests (Philippe)
• Test profiling, testing, debugging facilities available in chandler
• Functional tests for date edge cases (Bear)
  • special dates
  • leapyear transitions
  • problem dates
  • 30 day transition to 31 day months
  • daylight savings time
  • dst transitions
  • non-pacific timezones
  • week to week transition
  • locales (non gregorian calendars)
  • first of [Month, Week, Year]
  • last of [Month, Week, Year]
• Cosmo performance/compliance (Lisa and Grant)
• Zanshin unit tests
• RSS to stress test repository (Ted)
• Email to stress test repository (Andi)

Functional Tests

• Import testcases (Aparna)
• Export testcases (Aparna)
• Recurrence testcases (Katie and Sheila)
• Sharing testcases
• Calendar view testcases (Alec)
• Minicalendar testcases
• Email testcases (Mikeal)
• Summary view testcases

Test Tools

• Regression tool (Dan)
• Add functional tests to tinderbox
• do_tests.sh (windows enhancements)

Chandler linux distro builds

• LinuxDistroIntegration
• BuildingChandlerDesktop
• DebianBuildNotes, FedoraCoreBuildNotes, GentooBuildNotes
• ChandlerDesktopSource

Sprint feedback

Feedback about sprint week, notes about lessons learned while doing sprints, etc.

• KatieParlante20060120

Comments about the feeds tutorial

• python.exe doesn't exist in the 0.6 Windows distro
• from i18n import OSAFMessageFactory^? as _ needs to be added
• under "Creating and Displaying Data in Sidebar -> Downloading Feeds: FeedChannel^?(ContentItem^?) should be FeedChannel^?(ListCollection^?)
• sidebarCollections = schema.ns("osaf.app", self.itsView).sidebarCollections -> sidebarCollections = schema.ns("osaf.app", self.itsView).sidebarCollection [no s on sidebarCollection]
• Django is (needlessly) mentioned in at least one of the tutorials
• We need a tutorial that shows how to create extended calendar events
• need to mention how to set displayName for a collection to show up in the summary view
• How do you extend an existing detail view, like event?
• need from osaf.framework.types.DocumentTypes import SizeType^?, RectType^? for detail view