Staff Meeting August 3rd, 2006

Project updates

Desktop (Philippe)

• Alpha3: RC 1 built and later approved by QA and the Bug Council. Bits are available on line now. Sheila blogged about it.
• Alpha3.1: we might create such a version once we get the search field in the toolbar.
• Alpha4: we're working on plan and estimates right now. Of notice last week:
  • Bryan completed the breakdown of the Dashboard spec in tasks in Bugzilla * BrianK, Reid and Mimi are working on the email UI elements * BrianK and Bear are completing the EggTranslations project
• Beyond alpha4: we have embarked in a swag of the whole "beta" specs (as much as we can) so do not panic if you go to the Apps page and you see a spike in the number of bugs/tasks logged right now... We clearly need to discuss what's feasible in what timeframe.

Cosmo/Scooby (John)

• Infrastructure project with SimDesk under way
• Cosmo/Scooby merge: likely will become "Cosmo" for both, see @Cosmo for more details on the merge
• Work on the impact of the merge on Scooby 0.3

PPD (Sheila)

• Working on finishing alpha4 and Scooby 0.3 specs and supporting the dev team
• Better defining the target users
• Preparing the Cosmo/Scooby sprint week
• Trying to summarize the email and sharing threads on @design

Service (Jared)

• Working on Email scaling, customer support, roadmap
• Strawperson proposal on the list
• Prototype hardware project posted on the Wiki

Community (Ted)

• Made quite a lot of contacts at OSCON
• Switched Chandler to the Apache license

Reminders

• Intern presentations (Aug 10): send data to Philippe for your dry run timing
• Cosmo sprint (Aug 14-18): check out the sprint calendar. Cosmo/Scooby focused but anyone welcome to attend.
• Picnic (Aug 19): Check the Wiki for ride sharing.

OSCON Trip Reports

• Ted
  • Nice OSAF presentations (Cosmo, vobject) with 40 or so people in the room
  • Some people were asking for a Chandler talk. We'll need to do that next year!!
  • An entire track on community building. Interesting to see that lots of projects are working on this.
  • Interesting to hear that the desktop is considered as the choke point for the success of FLOSS. Server and Devices are considered as well covered or even won over by FLOSS.
• Brian Moseley
  • Mostly focused on the Cosmo talk
  • Telling people about sharing and the value proposition
  • People wanted to see examples of interop
  • Cosmo presentation has been accepted at ApacheCon as well. We'll show more stuff there.
• Matt
  • Went to converting Oracle to Postgress DB talk
  • Our presentation had may be too much content
  • Will post his notes on the blog
• Bobby
  • Worked on the talk. Think that a BOF would bave been better attended if it was after the presentation.
  • Nice to chat with people using svn, eclipse... like us
  • Interesting to hear people gripe with other FLOSS projects, clearly, it's hard to build and run a community
  • Liked the Selenium talk
• Jeffrey
  • Vobject talk went fine
  • Loved the Selenium thing as well (despite the double click and DnD support missing)
  • Impressed by Ted's photographic talent
  • FLOSS apparently very important in the world of embedded devices
• Bryan Stearns
  • Interested in Open Data talks: data needs to be open as much as code
• Robin
  • Talk well attended, lots of newbies in wxPython, good sign
  • Loved Damian Conways talks!...

Stamping storyboards (Sheila)

See Slides

Q: When is iTip happening? A: Don't know yet...

Dashboard demo (Bryan Stearns)

Show triaging button, sectionning for triage status, opening/closing section

Q: When will that be available? A: Alpha4, Already check in in the trunk.

-- Main.PhilippeBossut - 04 Aug 2006