Platform team meeting 17 October 2006

Agenda

• Q: What is on your mind today?
• α4
• staff meeting demos?
  • vtodo

Notes

• Q: What is on your mind today?
  • Heikki: performance
  • Andi: bugs, several seem to be reaching closure today 7016, 7019. P2P jabber based sharing.
  • Grant: cake. birthdays. getting older. bugs.
  • Morgen: looking forward to closing out alpha4 and starting eim work. looking at one remaining bug, 7019 -- interested in hearing about the status. (Grant -- side effect from deferred deletion, modifications don't get propagated. Underlying bug, remove the occurrences list, doesn't propagate the way we'd expect. Several bugs at once. Grant has a unit test which reproduces the bug. Uses the memory conduit. Andi will take the bug.)
  • Bear: Recurring theme, sometimes the build environment makes things hard for the developers, spend some mental time on how can we simplify the build environment.
• Build environment: readline issue
  • Bear is working on readln in python in windows. Bear needs to go make the python build have no parameters, then start adding them back. Heikki thinks it has never worked on windows. Bear says it supports it, but perhaps other dependencies on cygwin, etc. Andi suspects the way he made it work on mac could be made to work on windows. Bear: runs a different configure script on windows than osx. Andi: 2.4 doesn't depend on configure, go edit some file. Look at mac specific patch for osx. There is a file called modules? Commented out by default, you can comment it in correctly. Bear will ask on the Python list. Heikki Cygwin python. Grant: they manage to build readline support. Heikki/Bear: but they have a bunch of other support available with the cygwin libs. Bear: Twisted guys had to deal with this. Readline.py.
• Development tools you use day to day, documentation etc. so they can be shared with everyone else.
  • svk: a small handful of people use it. Instructions for new developers, etc. Journal pages by vinu and jared have info, perhaps collect information. Email bear with links to names, build up informal list, post to dev list and make it public.
  • subzilla
  • pdb (instead of using print statements)
• α4
  • bug fixing

Status

Katie

• Progress
  • spent a fair amount of time dogfooding/testing chandler, reproducing bugs and trying to get better info for debugging
  • job description for business strategy and development position, reviewing resumes
  • reviewed the budget with the ops team
  • branding activities, including planning for naming exercise and a meeting to review positioning statements
  • bug council for α4
• Plan
  • catch up on chandler dev summaries
  • continue dogfooding/testing
  • branding name exercise
  • draft positioning statement
  • continue reviewing resumes, networking for candidates, scheduling interviews

Andi

http://kumu.osafoundation.org/~vajda/logs.cgi

Grant

• Progress
  • 6905 Can't import absolute-time (er, "Custom") reminders
  • 6924 More stamping-as-annotation cleanup
  • 6921 Can't import an oracle-generated .ics event (RDATE problem)?
  • 6920 Error synching Office Calendar
  • 6953 "No attribute 'preferredKind'" in Flickr
  • Calconnect IOP Testing feedback
  • Discussions with JeffreyHarris, MimiYin and SheilaMooney on recurrence, triage status, last modified, etc.
  • Looked into some performance issues with creating new occurrences, related to 6775, and also discussed in this chandler-dev@ thread.
  • 6838 Occurrences aren't being deleted when the trash is emptied
  • 7009 event disappears after dragging to trash & choosing 'all future'
  • 7017 error changing recurring event from weekly to biweekly
  • 7034 Intermittent failures in sharing tests due to stale proxied items
  • 7042 thisandfuture after this modification problem
  • 6775 Jump calendar slowdown with r11830 (stamping as annotation)
  • Tracked down a couple of intermittent tinderbox failures (7034, 7042).
  • α4 bug status:
    • 6815 (stamping the welcome note): Testing patch.
    • 6798 (modification edge cases): Fix requires patch in 6551.
    • 6884 (Chandler died after sitting idle for a bit): Waiting for more info from pdb.
• Plan
  • α4 bug fixing.
  • Schedule presentation for ErnestoRivera

Morgen

• Progress
  • Fixed bug 6964 ("Default" accounts not being set properly, plus need unit test for settings.py)
  • Investigated not rolling back sharing view during sync, and discussed option with Andi, Grant and Jeffrey
  • Investigated bug 6994 (sharing inconsistencies), and figured out that timezones were not being persisted correctly.
  • Fixed bug 6874 (Commit after adding subscribed collection to sidebar)
  • Fixed bug 6899 (Talkback window pops up when trying to restore settings)
  • Fixed bug 6907 (Save 'Start logging' to .ini settings file)
  • Fixed bug 6970 (Events disappearing after sync of calendar)
  • Fixed bug 7041 (Intermittent tinderbox sharing test failure: 'NoneType' has no attribute 'itsView')
  • Fixed bug 7054 (Items removed from server aren't being removed locally)
  • Fixed bug 7062 (Recurrence rule merge error while restoring my work collection)
  • Fixed bug 7074 (reminder assert causes twisted to get funky)
  • Fixed bug 7087 (Changing a collection's online/offline status may not take effect)
  • Fixed bug 7086 (Hitting ESC in a Yes/No dialog raises an exception)
  • Fixed bug 7088 (Chandler should send User-Agent header)
• Plan
  • http://tinyurl.com/y5lqrg

Bear

• Progress
  • Fixed bug 6413 (Chandler should refuse to run on the wrong architecture)
  • Fixed bug 6450 (Chandler terminates as soon as it is launched)
  • Fixed bug 6574 (chandler.log not appended to tbox log on Windows quick builds)
  • Fixed bug 6713 (plugins can't live in CHANDLERBIN)
  • Fixed bug 6971 (Upgrade parsedatetime library)
  • Fixed bug 7011 (checkpoint 10-09-06 only works on winXP, chandler won't start)
  • Fixed bug 7025 (Cannot launch Latest OSX build)
  • Fixed bug 7038 (add install-plugin-core target to Makefile)
  • Fixed bug 7059 (change getPlatformName() to only return "Windows")
  • Fixed bug 7065 (egg_translations import errors when using end-user installer)
• Plan
  • work on remaining two bugs
  • Prepare for release candidates for both Chandler and Cosmo