Platform Team Meeting 2 May 2006

Agenda

• Question of the week: Have you read "Producing Open Source Software"? What did you take away from it?
• 0.7alpha2
  • feature freeze: May 1
  • release: May 11 (may actually spin builds the next tuesday)
• 0.7alpha3
  • performance next steps
• sprint week
  • lightning talks?

Notes

• Have you read "Producing Open Source Software"? What did you take away from it?
  • politics was to the point and well written
  • required reading of new osaf employees -- good picture of how open source projects work
  • useful advice for exteremely large projects
  • best practices all in one place -- small examples, consistent ways of doing things

Status

Katie

• Progress
  • chandlerdev summary
  • strategy discussions
  • prep for sprint week
  • alpha2 background sync decision
  • vision prioritization exercise
• Plan
  • stamping writeup
  • sharing format -- prep for next week
  • start collections spec
  • start interop spec

Brian K

• Progress
  • Check in a series of mail bug fixes for Alpha 2 under bug:5735
  • Add a .7 i18n roadmap wiki page and linked off of main i18n wiki page
  • Grab additional alpha 2 bugs including bug:5371
  • Finished outstanding Cosmo 0.3 issues
  • Booked majority of Bitcon trip
• Plan
  • Regression test i18n features set in Chandler
  • Write up thoughts on Email in Chandler. Can we host our own server?
  • Finish booking last of Bitcon arrangements
  • Fix bug:5371
  • Handle any outstanding Cosmo .3 issues that may arise during testing of release

Heikki

• Progress
  • Built wxWidgets with Eclipse, see http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/WxWidgetsInEclipse20060501
• Plans
  • Help Markku get up to speed
  • alpha2 bug triage

PJE

• Progress
  • Published docs for setuptools internals
  • Misc. assists via IRC and email
  • Preliminary work on dump/reload proposal
  • More work on setuptools 0.6b1
• Plans
  • Post a dump/reload process sketch
  • Wrap setuptools 0.6b1, finally

Ted

• Progress
  • PTO
  • Organized Google Summer of Code
  • Some work on portal
• Plans
  • Google Summer of Code
  • Portal work
  • Committer process

Grant

• Progress
  • Phone-screened an intern candidate.
  • Worked to resolve various view merging (a.k.a. “background sync”) issues with MorgenSagen and AndiVajda.
  • Started implementing some of the ideas in post-alpha2 recurrence work.
  • Punted some non-critical bugs out of 0.7α3.
  • Wrote up a proposal for a Chandler Contacts project for GoogleSummerOfCode2006.
  • Got some tests written for my self-assigned project.

• Plan
  • Critical 0.7α2 bugs, if any.
  • Recurrence.

Morgen

• Progress
  • Worked with Andi and Grant on background sync
  • Made sure 0.7 was backwards compatible with office calendar (bug 5806)
• Plan
  • Re-enable the username/password dialog for subscribing to shares with no matching account
  • Background sync testing
  • Clean-up new sharing code
  • Add facility for shutdown-time sync interrupt
  • Add an interrupt menu item
  • Summarize the sharing format issue before next week's meeting

Andi

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