Platform Team Meeting 3 October 2006

Agenda

• Q: What conferences should OSAF be sending people to next year? Thinking of any presentations?
• α4
  • stability is the goal, will hold release for bug fixes
  • current release date: 17 october
  • anything we should be doing differently to discover, diagnose or fix bugs?
• α5
  • EIM, sharing format, dump and reload
• calconnect

Notes

• Q: What conferences should OSAF be sending people to next year? Presentations?
  • Andi: wants to go to europycon in July
  • Grant: IETF might not provide much benefit for OSAF, unless we have some sort of agenda. Calconnect is good for interop testing.
  • Heikki: has been wanting to go to PyCon
  • Morgen: quite happy not to attend any conferences
  • Bear: happy to attend conferences on the east coast
  • PJE: PyCon would be nice, main things he might present related to 20% project and setuptools. Networking opportunities will be useful.
• α4
  • Morgen: Prefetching items for performance might be destabilizing -- include in α4?
    • Heikki: should try and fix performance regressions
    • Andi: can we just get the thing to work first? stability is more important.
    • Katie: stability bugs should have higher priority. Morgen's work on performance won't be a waste of time, though. Even if we decide not to accept a fix for α4 if the risk isn't worth it, we'll take it 2 weeks later.
• α5
  • PJE sent out his implementation plan for EIM. He should have something ready for Morgen to get started in a few weeks.
  • Dump and reload needs to be spec'd further, not worked out so not clear if it will fit in α5. PJE's layer will be implemented, but will require work at a higher layer that is not spec'd and doesn't have an owner. Should build on top of sharing, so somewhat sequential.
• Calconnect
  • 4 servers: Cosmo/Apple/RPI/Oracle. Oracle changes our timezones into UTC, which causes confusion. Apple server worked perfectly. They have a pretty big test script, don't have a lot in the way of regressions? Mikeal is looking at making use of it.
  • Mikeal attended 3 days of discussion.

Status

Katie

• Progress
• Plan
  • dogfood/test chandler; try to reproduce Bug:6917, Bug:6855
  • put out job description for Business Strategy and Development position
  • get caught up on dev list summaries
  • review budget with ops team
  • get involved with branding activities
  • review conference plan for 2007

Grant

• Progress
  • Had a look at having modifications appear in collections.
  • Attended Calconnect IOP Testing event 9/26 — 9/27
  • Resurrected the Chandler launcher I wrote for the Mac a while back; it might be useful for getting the feedback dialog’s “Restart” button to work.
  • Got my ICalendar VTODO implementation working well enough to be able to import all my tasks from iCal.app, and start dogfooding Chandler.
  • PTO Sep 22.
  • 6462 Implement stamping as annotations
  • 6607 Master events shouldn't be occurrences
  • 6754 Stamping-as-annotation changes broke the "Who" column
  • 5940 Stamping from Item menu should be disabled sometimes
  • 6797 Change THISANDFUTURE in the calendar raises
  • 6808 Some items don't display Appears-in field
  • 6816 Logs (and missing items) subscribing to collections on cosmo-demo with stamped items
  • 5400 'About Chandler' menu Item misplaced

• Plan
  • α4 bug fixing.

PJE

• Progress
  • EIM API proposal types update, keys support, etc.
  • setuptools 0.6c3 release for SVN 1.4, Python 2.5, etc.
  • setuptools 0.6c4 work: Sourceforge downloading fixes, .exe handling, "eggsecutable" support, upload RPMs etc.,
  • Review schema-related changes from Andi (moving stuff to C) and Grant (for stamping-as-annotations)
  • CHANDLERHOME/BIN discussions and bugfixes
  • initialValue bug discussions/plan
  • EIM development plan
• Plan
  • Implement EIM types layer and record management
  • Release setuptools 0.6c4 (after finishing new install docs and win32 install tweaks)
  • Out of office October 17th-23rd

Heikki

• Progress
• Plans
  • 3 more alpha4 bugs to squash
  • Hopefully have some time to look at performance

Morgen

• Progress
  • Fixed bug 6177 (friendlier messages for DNS/connection failures)
  • Fixed bug 6565 (now saving/restoring number of visible hours, and collection colors)
  • Fixed bug 6801 (409 sharing error)
  • Fixed bug 5389 (Handle the case where flickr service is unavailable)
  • Fixed bug 6852 (Quitting during sub/pub hangs Chandler)
  • Fixed bug 6877 (Collection colors start out as floating point values)
  • Fixed bug 6874 (Should commit after adding to sidebar)
  • Bug 6907 in progress
  • Investigated perf issues in bug 5651
• Plan
  • Continue 5651

Andi

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