Platform Team Meeting 21 March 2006

Agenda

• Question of the week: Any near term wish list items for build/release engineering?
• 0.7 planning
  • alpha2 plan ready
  • domain model

Notes

• Any near term wish list items for build/release engineering?
  • Tinderboxes reliably working
  • Don't consider tinderbox full build going red a showstopper (it is special -- what is the policy here?)
  • Dogfood feedback that people are confused about how to reset their chandler
    • Re-installing chandler doesn't give an option to blow away the repository
    • No ui way to really do a reset
    • Repository hard to find under profile directory
  • Egg support (already have a bug, already planning the work)
• Tinderbox for full build
  • For people who work on internal/external, do they require the full build to be working?
  • David, Robin, Reid, Bear, all do work on full build tree
  • We could branch wx, could scope down the people who need to pay attention to it.
    • wx is big, so branching might be too painful
  • The point of separating the full build is to allow the full build to break (e.g. wx development) and not affect most developers
  • Going red shouldn't be a showstopper, but red shouldn't be the permanent state. Should be announced on dev ahead of time if we know breakages are going to occur.
  • NA (katie): We need to decide on the appropriate policy for the full build
• Installer
  • Needs work, different installers are doing different things (different platforms -- osx and linux don't really have "installers")
  • Make the windows thing similar to os x? Breaks the style.
  • Original spec for the installer (items on a wiki page), enhanced by bugs
  • New use cases for people who have data, part of dump and reload
  • Repository shared among different programs.
  • Needs to be documented, a lot of little details.
  • Short term: may need a first time run script?
• Failures on tinderboxes -- no longer environmental issues, they are now tests that are really failing
  • Monaloa, Alanui (linux build machines) needs to get upgraded (they are FC2)
  • blocking on not having to build our own gcc
  • NA (bear): bear will get with heikki to get past gcc problem, bear to work with andi on dealing with swig
  • We need to build a gcc compiler for 3.4 for ubuntu, so we can migrate tinderboxes to ubuntu
  • Investigate why wx needs its version of swig, would like to update to latest version of swig to get past a pyicu memory problem

Status

Katie

• Progress
  • Wrote chandler-dev list summary
  • stamping design session
  • Went to see Mimi and Merlin talk at BayCHI^?
  • Met with PPD team about product strategy planning
  • Met with Mitch and Sheila about product strategy planning
  • Worked with Mimi on stamping storyboards
• Plan
  • Long overdue collections summary from weeks ago
  • Frame "dump and reload" requirements/issues for design list
  • Jump into list discussions about sharing format and CalDAV
  • Write reviews

Morgen

• Progress
  • Worked on background syncing; it's half-working, but moving from synchronous to async means that conflict resolution happens in OnIdle^? which needs some more investigation.
  • Mocked up a detail view supporting one-to-many item relationships
  • Fixed a couple sharing bugs
• Plan
  • Continue working on background sync, especially where/when view merging happens
  • Fix a bug in Import/Export framework - iCalendar uses the wrong signature

Brian K

• Progress
  • Finished bug:4940 - cosmo should allow properties to be set with MKCALENDAR (still testing and debugging)
  • Finished bug:5134 - MKCALENDAR needs to support setting of timezone (still testing and debugging)
• Plan
  • Finish off Cosmo tasks including bug:4940 and bug:5134
  • Catch up on .7 spec reading
  • Review .7 plan for milestone deliverables

PJE

• Progress
  • Worked on a 20% project plan w/Katie (work on Python 2.5)
  • Worked w/Bear to hash out a rough plan for integrating egg parcels w/build and test systems
  • Implemented setuptools namespace package compatibility for system packaging tools that complain about more than one package supplying the same file
  • Added tests for egg parcel loader
  • Enhanced setuptools handling of .pth files to use relative paths for eggs that are in the same directory as the .pth file; this was needed for Chandler releases that can be installed in a different directory than the one where they were built
  • Improved setuptools' compatibility w/certain distutils enhancements that support optional building of some extensions (e.g. scipy.distutils)
• Plan
  • Post egg build/test proposal to Dev
  • Implement a Chandler-HelloWorldPlugin egg as a prototype for testing integration w/the build-and-test systems

Ted

• Progress
  • PortalProject, IRC info gathering session,
  • Stamping design session and mail threads
  • Managing Pieter stuff
  • Prep for NTEN conference
  • Mailing list renaming (archive issues still open)
  • Overdue message on e-mail fatigue
• Plan
  • Portal taxonomy
  • Panel at NTEN conference
  • Community group home/landing page
  • PTO Fri, Mon, Tues

Bear

• Progress
  • Changed build process to "install" sub-projects into the downloads (CHANDLERARCHIVES) directory instead of directly into chandler/ and then to call the chandler/Makefile install target.
  • Added setuptools 0.6a10 (bug 4983) (and now 0.6a11)
  • Modified the quick builds to run Functional Tests (bug 5195)
  • Updated the release steps to use the new version numbering scheme - minor cleanup work remains (bug 5324)
  • Prepared Cosmo 0.2.8 for release
  • Bugs: 2340, 3373, 3425, 3984
• Planned
  • Finish quick build functional test changes
  • Roll out new tinderbox scripts
  • Add litmus and silmut tests to Cosmo tinderboxes
  • Prepare for Scooby 0.1 release (which implies a OSAF Server Bundle release)

Andi

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