Platform Meeting 18 April 2006

Agenda

• Question of the week: Core team sprint week is 3 weeks away. It currently overlaps with the end of alpha2. What activity would you like to see happen at sprint week? What do we need to do to prepare for this activity?
• sprint week
• 0.7alpha2 schedule slip
  • feature freeze: April 27th
  • release: May 11th
• pending open issues
  • displayName
  • feed egg

Notes

• Question of the week: Core team sprint
  • Heikki: meeting about proposed build changes: Bear, apps team wx, plugin developers
  • Andi: want to work on 20% project -- email proxying through chandler, imap server proxy to real imap server, like he did with irc a few weeks ago
  • Grant: wack-a-bug-athon
    • verifying bugs, fixing bugs, finding bugs?
    • finding bugs with everyone in the same room can be useful
  • Ted: test people moving their calendars from 0.6 to 0.7 alpha 2
    • all 3 projects intersect with each other
      • sharing format
      • problems that cross projects, like end-to-end testing, end-to-end performance
      • drag and drop scooby and chandler
  • Morgen
    • meeting about sharing format
    • small group of people testing sharing, including esther in the same room
  • PJE: build stuff for eggs if he was there
  • Katie

Status

Katie

• Progress
  • strategy list posts
  • chandler dev summary
  • press activities
  • email design session
  • where are we at with stamping?
• Plan
  • frame "dump and reload" requirements/issues for design list
  • sharing format
  • start collections spec
  • start interop spec

Ted

• Progress
  • Started changes for Bug:3531
  • Discussion in progress for Bug:1745
  • More progress on Portal Taxonomy
  • Restarted work on new committer process
  • Jim Fallows phone interview
  • Scooby community discussions
• Plan
  • Bug:3531
  • Close discussion on Bug:1745
  • More progress on Portal Taxonomy
  • Finish new committer process
  • Organize Google Summer of Code

Brian K

• Progress
  • Finished Bug 5643: Cosmo crashes with Sun JVM
  • Various i18n conversations regarding schema and dialogs
• Plan
  • Finish outstanding Cosmo 0.3 issues
  • Send i18n .7 roadmap email
  • Write up thoughts on Email in Chandler. Can we host our own server?
  • Grab Alpha 2 bugs from the list as time permits

PJE

• Progress
  • Work on prerequisites to setuptools integration w/Python 2.5
  • Port feeds parcel to plugin egg, write how-to for Dev list
  • "Stale item reloading" issue discussions w/Morgen and Andi.
  • Misc. assists on IRC
  • Python 2.5:
    • make pydoc support zip/egg files by expanded/enhanced pkgutil module
    • merged setuptools with the Python 2.5 trunk
• Plan
  • Implement installation manifest for setuptools and Python 2.5
  • Merge setuptools docs to Python 2.5
  • Begin dump/reload proposal draft

Morgen

• Progress
  • Lots of background sync debugging
  • Removed unnecessary commits for local import/export operations
• Plan
  • Re-enable the username/password dialog for subscribing to shares with no matching account
  • Background sync testing
  • Clean-up new sharing code

Grant

• Progress
  • Looked into various issues raised by MikealRogers on Chandler-Cosmo sharing traffic.
  • Wrote up some Unicode/python code suggestions for chandler-dev
  • Did some admin-related work on my self-assigned project (ChandlerSyncServices): writing up better documentation, writing a setuptools-style setup.py.
  • Ongoing bug investigations: 5598, 5604, 5621, 5673.
  • Wrestled further with peer reviews.

• Plans
  • 0.7a2 bug fixes.

Andi

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