Notes

Developer Dogfood brain storming

• Drivers:
  • PyCon 2005 (late March 2005)
    • session - here's how you build a sample app with CPIA
    • sprint - use the api discussed in the session, on site performance sprint (interaction w/ python core devs)
  • OSCON 2005 (late July 2005)
    • 3 hour building parcel tutorial

• Overall goal: at a particular release, people can do what we can do

• Deliverables:
  • Docs
    • Roadmaps (multi-release)
      • CPIA
      • Repository
    • Functional specs
    • Architecture
    • Subsystem overviews
    • API docs
      • What API's, etc constitute the platform interfaces?
    • Release status / project dashboard
  • Annotated sample code

• API Design/Review
  • process for API review, design, redesign

• Developer tools
  • generic item edit/display - repo viewer
  • debugging aids/tools/tips
  • data migration/upgrade, schema evolution (also user dogfood issue)
  • schema editor
  • community driven/assisted

• Sample apps
  • Servlet
    • implies more work to support threading in servlets
    • rep perf/scalablity
  • ZaoBao
    • large data issues
    • provide data for use by other parcels
    • CPIA issues
    • stress capplet architectures
  • VOIP
    • headless parcel support vs library vs component fwk
    • parcels using other parcels (threading issues?)

• Projects we want to enable
  • address book/contacts
  • Jabber/IM client
  • other functionality to pull forward

-- TedLeung - 20 Oct 2004