Platform Team Meeting 5 September 2005

Agenda

• QOTF: Should we have another "sprint" this year? What activities would be useful in person?
• alpha4
• dogfood bugs/feedback

Notes

• Q: sprint?
  • Grant: ambivalent. People seem to be chugging along pretty well sprint free.
  • Andi: ambivalent. Why disturb what is working well now, gotta focus.
  • PJE: wait until we can have liquids on planes again. no pressing need.
  • Morgen, Bear, Katie: agree with above
• alpha4
  • EIM proposal
    • Morgen: what are the next steps? No comments or questions on the EIM proposal? Silence is deafening.
    • Bear: questions are in places where we don't have enough information, wait and see
    • PJE: is this the right thing? will be pretty involved to build, want to get it right
      • how does it look from an application programmer point of view. Examples easy enough to use?
      • will sharing system work with that? feasible? (Morgen: Yes)
• dogfood bugs, feedback, missing tracebacks
  • dogfooders are trying to use alpha3 or trunk, running into problems that don't get logged as bugs or don't get addressed
    • missing diagnostic information to hunt the problems down
    • send feedback but don't log bugs
  • chandler logs are missing tracebacks
    • warnings/errors seen in the logs with no associated traceback
    • dogfooders (sheila/mimi/etc) see tracebacks in feedback window that never show up in logs
    • tests fail and no traceback is seen in the log
  • Andi filed Bug:6618, currently owned by John, about OnIdle^? exceptions that don't get logged
  • Bug:6618 doesn't explain the feedback window case
    • Katie has seen this, will file a bug with an example and assign it to Andi
  • Heikki has a task to scan through feedback logs and log bugs for traces/errors with no bug
    • this is not a long term strategy -- hope to automate this eventually
  • Morgen and Andi asked for a feature where the feedback window gives the user some sort of ticket they could attach to the bug, to help the developer track down the appropriate log on the server
• log file issues raised
  • privacy issues: passwords, tickets, username, etc.
  • twisted.log and chandler.log being seperate is a pain. Grant has a patch to unify the log files.

Status

Katie

• Progress
  • dev list summaries (July 24 - 30, July 31 - Aug 6, Aug 7 - 13, Aug 14 - 20)
• Plan

Morgen

• Progress
  • Enhanced the save/restore feature to handle IMAP/POP/SMTP
  • Added "Test > Logging > Logging level" menu
  • Fixed bug 5758 Timeouts not being caught in the test sharing account function
  • Added a callback mechanism for processing inbound items
  • Fixed bug 6608 (Error subscribing to freebusy .ifb urls containing tickets)
  • Fixed bug 6465 (Resubscribing to a share using a different ticket takes on the permissions of the new ticket)
  • Fixed bug 5791 (Exporting a collection to .ics will be aborted if there are no events in the collection)
  • Fixed bug 5792 (Make collection names "filesystem safe" when exporting .ics files)
• Plan
  • Continue fixing alpha4 bugs
  • Discuss next steps for EIM with pje

PJE

• Progress
  • EIM discussions w/Morgen and Brian Moseley
  • Python 2.5 generator finalization discussions
  • EIM API Proposal draft, discussions
  • Fixed bug 6585 (an issue with parcel initialization)
  • Worked w/Andi on ConstantEnumeration addition to the repository and schema API
  • Helped Morgen and Andi track down Kind initialization problems and race conditions
  • Review Grant's stamping-as-annotation work and send comments
  • Worked out with Andi a possible solution to the increasing overhead and complexity in repository descriptor/cache management to deal with schema changes caused by increased use of annotations
  • Some work on setuptools 0.6c2
• Plan
  • Implement EIM API?
  • observer and computed attributes for annotations? (or integrate Grant's work on "Calculated" attrs from stamping-as-annotation branch?)
  • setuptools 0.6c2

Grant

• Progress
  • Feedback to ErnestoRivera on contacts parcel write-up.
  • Ongoing stamping-as-annotations implementation, including work with TravisVachon to get his imapserver parcel working.
  • zanshin patch review for JeffreyHarris.
  • Minor xrc file cleanup on Chandler trunk.
  • Made sure chandler-dev@ messages appear on gmane.org again.
  • End-user support on chandler-dev@.
  • Wrote up some feedback on <http://www.xmpp.org/drafts/attic/draft-hildebrand-webdav-notify-01.txt>.
  • Wrote up stamping-as-annotation notes, and implemented feedback from PJE.
  • Got JeffreyHarris’s feedback on 6607 (Master events shouldn’t be occurrences), almost ready to check in.
• Plan
  • Finish up recurrence fix above.
  • Back to stamping as annotation for α4
  • GSoC review for ErnestoRivera.