Operations Group Meeting of February 22, 2005

I. Hiring Discussion.

II. Reviews. Review cycle will begin on February 28 and will conclude in March.

III. OSAF IT Opening. Lisa will gather requirements for the job of supporting OSAF IT to determine scope of job and develop a job spec to review with Mitch on Monday.

IV. Funding for External Development. Stefan, WX Mac main contributor, has large release coming up, Julian asked to fund some of the work.Both Sheila and Katie will be the point people for this.Katie to find out scope of work from Julian & Stefan. Sheila will get involved to understand what is coming in 2.6 and how they help the Chandler client.

V. Spike work. Need a discussion and consensus to see the value of what is there and how to best sync. Lisa to coordinate, Morgen will be involved, Brian Skinner feedback to be used to launch discussion

• If anyone sees spike as take it or leave it, we have a process failure
• Point is to stimulate discussions, rearchitechting - wide range outcomes
• Use small group meeting will be setup to start the discussion - this will stimulate the next action.

VI. .5 Status. 109 bugs. Sheila & Aparna working on bugs, list will be smaller by end of week. 3 blocking bugs, today will review what else may be considered a blocking bug.

VII. Thread on aesthetics and css. Alec - working visual cleanup - started the discussion on his part

VIII. Widget bugs. When we do our critique of what was done and wasn't done for 0.5 we need to understand what features relate to widgets bugs. We will do a review of the page Sheila has been tracking for "things not done in 0.5". There are hidden costs of infrastructure development and for CPIA we don't want to reinvent the wheel. Need to start looking at 0.6 planning and how we are going to get the look and feel that we we want.

IX. hCalendar. Ted and Lisa are tracking this.