Platform Meeting 7 Feb 2006

Agenda

• Question of the week: What do you think about Mitch's governance writeup?
• PyCon planning: evening schedule?
• Anyone blocking on the ppd team (design team)?
• Open issues
  • schema evolution
  • collections and notifications
  • exceptions and translations
  • instrumentation

Notes

• Governance
  • Missing a section on the recourse one can take if one objects strongly to a decision
  • Not completely clear on whether or not it applies to everything, or just project management decisions
  • Doesn't address mechanics (which isn't necessarily a bad thing)
  • To really help decision making, would be useful to expand on values and principles, including making their priorities clear
  • Agreement seeking culture? We've certainly had instances where the minority made a decision the majority were unhappy with.
• PyCon: no evening events plan, go ahead and make your plans if you have other events to schedule in the evening
• Open issues: next steps
  • Katie to respond to schema evolution email
  • Design review meeting about collections and notifications

Status

Katie

• Progress
  • More iterations on bugzilla components
  • Went through most platform team bugs in bugzilla (moving some to future or other owners)
  • Proposed platform tenet, updated DesktopZeroDotSeven
• Plan
  • Review John's documentation
  • Schema evolution requirements
  • Try and frame notification and collection work, projects and owners for 0.6
  • Take components proposal to list

Morgen

• Progress
  • Started on background syncing, ran into view merging issues
  • Fixed bug 5098 -- a bug where a Share's list of attributes to filter out was getting corrupted by the Manage dialog; checked fix into 0.6.1 branch
  • Investigated http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4987
  • Added XML-RPC to core servlets, and added the ability to choose which repository view an XML-RPC method operates in. Updated the repo servlet to take advantage of this.
  • Wrote a Tinderbox Dashboard widget http://web.mac.com/morgensagen/ChandlerTinderboxWidget1.1.dmg
  • Got rid of UIDMap (icalUID lookup mechanism) and replaced it with a value index on the CalendarEvent^? KindCollection^? now living in pim.calendar
  • Sharing layer no longer uses libxml2 (moved to ElementTree^?)
  • Added a helper method in util/indexes.py for looking up items by attribute value in an index; both feeds parcel and ICalendar use this method.
  • Cataloged osaf.app items in preparation for breaking the unwanted dependencies on osaf.app: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/FrameworkModularity
• Plan
  • Continue developing 0.7 goals and spec
  • Follow up on the osaf.app reorg
  • Add Notification collection(s)
  • Track down merge issues with async syncing

Ted

• Progress
  • blog post on quicksilver/xmlrpc integration
  • snarf controversy
  • reviewed domain model bugs w/ Katie
  • read john's cpia docs, commentary forthcoming
  • portal project kickoff
  • phone call w/ dria re: developer.mozilla.org
  • list of projects to OSU
  • various community related e-mails
  • started on committer policy document
  • open design meeting
• Plan
  • update item collection spec
  • comment on cpia docs
  • Spelunking through data model
  • review i18n docs and schema docs
  • committer policy document
  • out friday

PJE

• Progress
  • Made a rough 0.7 plan for eggs and schema evolution (more immediate next steps than grand visions)
  • Lots of work to get rid of intermittent TestStartups failures and hangs due to race conditions and cascading failures caused by the race conditions
  • Work w/Bear on notification algorithm for tinderbox failures
  • Lots of work on/related to bug 5102
  • Dev writeup re: schema evolution
  • Work w/Morgen on planning "regifting" of osaf.app objects back to their rightful owners
  • list of projects to OSU
  • Began work on a "find plugins" API for setuptools to find egg parcels with
  • Work on "fat binary" support for setuptools on Mac OS (mostly implementing Bob Ippolito's patches and making them work correctly on non-Mac platforms)
  • Fix setuptools misidentifying "system" or "development" eggs as directories to run setup.py in
• Plan
  • Continue keeping an eye on TestStartups, hopefully finding the source of the OS X hangs
  • More precisely define the questions I need to ask Andi about schema evolution, both about what the repository does/can do now, and what approaches might be viable for various aspects of the problem
  • Finish the "find plugins" API and release setuptools 0.6a10 so it can get in the Chandler build before I begin adding parcel loading support
  • Go back over notes from discussion w/bkirsch on egg i18n stuff, incorporate needed tasks into the 0.7 egg plan

Grant

• Progress
  • Continuing work on zanshin/Sharing bugs 4470, 4981, 4982
  • Converted zanshin to use elementtree instead of libxml2.
  • Investigated using slide WebDAV tools to execute xml-specified test cases.
  • Participated in 2nd design session on scheduling/invitation workflows.
  • Started looking at using AndiVajda's PyICU.ICUtzinfo.getFloating() API in Chandler.
• Plans
  • Start working on PyCon paper (due 2/15) and talk.
  • Finish up zanshin bugs.
  • Timezone work.

Andi

• svn and bug activity