Weekly Report - February 22-28

Generated 1Mar2004 3:26 pm Grouped by Projects

February 22nd - February 28th
Project : Categories / Higher education
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Pieter Hartsook	Work on draft of questions to present as a survey to NITLE schools	In progress	Work on draft of questions to present as a survey to NITLE schools. Goal is to validate any differences in requirements, usage, administration, or use from CSG schools. Run draft by Chao and Mitch early next week. Send to Scott to distribute as a survey in mid-February.	Scott formulated a draft on-line questionnaire. I provided feedback for some minor changes, forwarded on to Chao for his comments. Scott also sent to Clara Yu the NITLE coordinator, for her suggestions and to get the distribution list for emailing the final version. Expect to field the survey 1st week in March.
Chao Lam	Review NITLE survey status with Pieter	Not started	Review NITLE survey status with Pieter. Read Pieter's docs	not done
Project : Categories / Product design
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Chao Lam	Do a next rev at "Design Map". Prioritize our next set of design discussions, soliciting input from Mitch, Mimi and Brian.	Completed	Get input from design team. Come up with draft of what we'll be doing for next 8-12 weeks.	done. See DesignToDoList^?
Chao Lam	Work with Brian and rest of design to arrive at Design uniform document templates and organization	In progress	Meet up with Mimi, Brian and Mitch. Assist Brian to drive this to a usable state	Met up. Brian is driving this.
Chao Lam	Write up first draft on requirements for sharing notification	Not started	Write up first draft on requirements for sharing notification (time permitting)
Brian Skinner	Design docs	In progress	(+) Write up notes from 19 Feb meeting with Chao about our schedule for working on design docs. Get started on one of the design docs if time permits. (+) Write up notes from design meetings on 12 Feb, 17 Feb, and 19 Feb. Include lists of action items and open issues. (+) Review notes from 5 Feb design meeting, and record next actions within corresponding design docs.	Cleaned up my to-do list, and recorded design doc tasks outlined at the 19 Feb meeting with Chao. Still need to write up notes from design meetings on 12 Feb, 17 Feb, and 19 Feb.
Brian Skinner	Design meetings	In progress	Design meetings on Monday and Tuesday.	Done.
Brian Skinner	Template for design docs	In progress	(+) Follow up with Chao and Jurgen about getting the EditTablePlugin^? working. (+) Update the Journal.FilingDesignArtifacts20031218 doc to reflect new decisions, or mark it as obsolete and figure out some other place to record lasting decisions.	(+) Checked in with Jurgen on Tuesday. Sent follow-up mail to Chao and Jurgen to arrange meeting for next week. (+) Created a new project page for the Trash.OsafLibraryProject^?. (+) Learned to use the wiki %SEARCH% feature, and used it to clean up the Glossary's main table of contents page. Next step is to figure out how to use the %SEARCH% feature with wiki metadata.
Project : Chandler development
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Mitch Kapor	Act like a good development manager, especially to surface and deal with intergroup issues	In progress	.3 debrief plan intergroup summit meetings for .4 participate in users and groups meetings participate in intergroup queries meeting	done
Project : Chandler development / Application
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Katie Parlante	Start initial planning for after the release	Not started	First attempt of the long list of work to be done for the 0.4 release
Project : Chandler development / Application / Content model
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Jeffrey Harris	Maintain XSL files and related python code.	In progress	Maintain XSL files and related python code.
Brian Skinner	Drive towards having an initial PIM level Content Model.	In progress	(+) Meet with engineers on Monday to talk about 0.4 content model for users, groups, contacts, and access permissions (+) Work with Jeffrey and Heikki on coming up with a proposed set of 0.4 requirements/deliverables for the import/export project. (And propose renaming the project to better reflect the fact that it's really focused on solidifying the content model.) (+) Hand off to Jeffrey whatever sample data that Mitch and Mimi come up with.	(+) Met on Monday about the 0.4 content model for users, groups, contacts, and access permissions. (See meeting notes at UsersAndGroupsDesign2004#EngineeringReality.) We plan to have a second meeting when Andi gets back in town. (+) Had IRC chats with Jeffrey and Heikki abou the import/export project. Renamed the "import/export project" to be the Projects.ContentModelInteroperationProject. Made a first pass at writing up Goals and 0.4 Deliverables for the project, to be reworked by Jeffrey and Heikki as necessary. (+) Conversations, in person and by e-mail and IRC, with Stuart and Jeffrey, about the e-mail content model and the contacts content model. (+) No sample data yet to hand off to Jeffrey.
Project : Chandler development / Capplets / Third party / Zaobao
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Stuart Parmenter	Build Zaobao out of blocks	In progress	Build Zaobao out of blocks
Stuart Parmenter	Cleanup and polish Zaobao	In progress	Cleanup and polish Zaobao
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Info management
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Mimi Yin	.4 planning	In progress		Put up wireframes for the Summary table Put up workflow proposals and storyboards for: Stamping Collections Put together proposals for QueryView^? building and Contacts. Still to upload.
Mimi Yin	PPF-Past Present Future view aka Triage	In progress		Put together a proposal for a Project planner view based on the Dashboard view. (Still to upload)
Mimi Yin	Stamping and Collections	In progress		See .4 planning
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Notification framework
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Stuart Parmenter	Update notification manager documentation on the wiki	In progress	Will work on after feature freeze
Stuart Parmenter	Notification Manager design review	Not started	Will work on after feature freeze
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Parcel framework
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Morgen Sagen	Write parcel documentation	Completed	Finish this up	Done, located here.
Morgen Sagen	Write an example parcel	In progress		Written, and procedure for using it written here. Still adding to it.
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Mitch Kapor	coordinate repository working group	In progress	review PyCon sprint status integration of PKI project into Chandler review status of community testing	done
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository / Data model
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Ted Leung	Repository Access Control/Sharing	In progress	Attend meetings to help define this	Attended one meeting Reviewed Java2 Principal/Subject API's Second meeting postponed
Andi Vajda	Make data model wonderful	In progress	make data model wonderful
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository / Persistence
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
John Anderson	Solve the schema evolution problem as well as it was solved using ZODB in the previous design.	In progress	I may postpone this if I don't have enough time to work on it
Ted Leung	Get a baseline view of repository performance.	In progress	re-profile write and read tests with Andi's tar file. Work with bear to incorporate his investigations	Some profile displays are available in: profiles Something has broken in the test again: We need to look into this a bit more. Bear has come up with some additional microbenchmarks for profiling. I"ve taken a quick look at his code, but need to look at it more closely
Andi Vajda	Make repository wonderful	In progress	Make repository wonderful
Andi Vajda	Revive repository sharing	In progress	Improve remote access protocol. Take a look at webdav.
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository / Query
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Ted Leung	Get feedback on query proposal	Completed	Meet to reach consensus on current query proposal	Replied to John and Katie's e-mail feedback Held query meeting - notes on the wiki and dev list Will work with John on QueryItem^? API
Ted Leung	Get ready for implementation	Completed	Finish Python Cookbook	Done
Ted Leung	Start catching up on query literature	In progress	Look at papers by Buneman, Suciu groups	Read: A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data Querying Semistructured Data
Katie Parlante	Review Ted's query proposal	Completed	Meet with Ted, Andi and John	Done
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Security
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Pieter Hartsook	Work on draft of questions to present as a survey to NITLE schools	In progress	Work on draft of questions to present as a survey to NITLE schools. Goal is to validate any differences in requirements, usage, administration, or use from CSG schools. Run draft by Chao and Mitch early next week. Send to Scott to distribute as a survey in mid-February.	Scott formulated a draft on-line questionnaire. I provided feedback for some minor changes, forwarded on to Chao for his comments. Scott also sent to Clara Yu the NITLE coordinator, for her suggestions and to get the distribution list for emailing the final version. Expect to field the survey 1st week in March.
Katie Parlante	Review design team's security proposal	In progress	Read and review on the train.
Heikki Toivonen	Resolution for Dartmouth PKI Lab's PKI for P2P proposal.	Completed	Refine requirements, work on schedule, etc.	Decided OSAF will start implementing this ourselves, main persons Heikki & Andi. May ask for contract help at some point, and almost definitely for an external audit at completion.
Heikki Toivonen	Continue with Chandler Security Project: SecurityProject	In progress		Started working on Chandler crypto, i.e. implementing the Dartmouth PKI proposal. Put up rough schedule and design. Integrated OpenSSL and M2Crypto into Chandler build (not yet checked in). Started reading the OpenSSL book.
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Sharing/Discovery
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Katie Parlante	Review design team's sharing proposal	In progress	Write up initial feedback for chao and team.
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Third party / wxPython
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Robin Dunn	Work on tools to extract the docstrings and detatiled docs from the SWIG XML output and put it into a simplified format that can be used for creating online HTML (or other formats) for wxPython reference documentation.	In progress	Write a tool (coordinating with community volunteers) that uses the new XML format to build input for a standard Python documenter tool. Evaluate Riaan's conversion script
Robin Dunn	Chapter reivews and editing for the wxPython book.	In progress	Chapter reivews and editing for the wxPython book.
Robin Dunn	Do another test release of wxPython 2.5.	In progress	Do another test release of wxPython 2.5.
Robin Dunn	Work on adding more docstrings for the SWIG gererated functions and methods.	In progress	Work on adding more docstrings for the SWIG gererated functions and methods.
Robin Dunn	Work on infrastructure changes (domain names, hosting configs, etc.) for changing the name of wxWindows to wxWidgets.	In progress	Try to get the SunSite^?.dk changes completed and transition the users to the new names.
Robin Dunn	Work on my OSAF bug list	In progress	Work on my OSAF bug list
Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / Documentation
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Katie Parlante	Documentation for release	Completed	+ Review docs + finish up map of chandler	done, at least for now ;)
Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / Documentation / Dev docs
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Ted Leung	Help out with release	Completed	Finish update of busy developer's guide	Review Parcel XML doc and General Technical overview Updated Busy Developer's Guide
Morgen Sagen	Set up a cron job to auto-publish the API epydocs	Completed		Done
Morgen Sagen	Write parcel documentation	Completed	Finish this up	Done, located here.
Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / Releases
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Katie Parlante	Documentation for release	Completed	+ Review docs + finish up map of chandler	done, at least for now ;)
Katie Parlante	Help coordinate 0.3 release	Completed	Daily bug council	done done done, the release is out.
Katie Parlante	Start initial planning for after the release	Not started	First attempt of the long list of work to be done for the 0.4 release
Morgen Sagen	Build 0.3 distributions	Completed	Incorporate "what's new" items collected from the engineers into HISTORY.txt, edit the download page, build the distros and put them on downloads server	Done, all builds created, uploaded to public server.
Ducky Sherwood	Write/be involved in writing a number of docs; see ZeroPointThreeNonCodeReleaseActionItems	Completed	Better finish!	Done, whew
Ducky Sherwood	Write up first pass of "what we're looking for in this release" for Chao (to go into the "purpose" doc).	Completed	Write up first pass of "what we're looking for in this release" for Chao (to go into the "purpose" doc).	Decided to use existing ReportingBugs^? page.
Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / UI design
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Mitch Kapor	focus on key design issues intensively	In progress	.4 planning Landscape open issues Sharing open issues sample data design map	.4 planning - done landscape open issues - dealt with other issues deferred
Mimi Yin	.4 planning	In progress		Put up wireframes for the Summary table Put up workflow proposals and storyboards for: Stamping Collections Put together proposals for QueryView^? building and Contacts. Still to upload.
Mimi Yin	Documentation	In progress		Worked with Brian and Mitch on new taxnomy for Design materials. Reorganized UI Design page accordingly Implemented Usage Pattern framework to organize design documents Put together page to store use cases
Mimi Yin	Entering workflow	In progress	Propose sketches for creating new items. Linked and unlinked.
Mimi Yin	Other research	In progress		Reading Esther Dyson articles on community and reputation management in the realm of social computing Looked over Intel Labs PKI article from Heikki Still reading TIE Database design article Started Brian's Scott McCloud^? "Understanding Comics" book
Mimi Yin	PPF-Past Present Future view aka Triage	In progress		Put together a proposal for a Project planner view based on the Dashboard view. (Still to upload)
Mimi Yin	Stamping and Collections	In progress		See .4 planning
Mimi Yin	User workflows	In progress	Pin down and prioritize Canoga user workflows.	Put together page to store use cases Entered Stamping and Collections use case
Project : Chandler development / Tools / HardHat
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Morgen Sagen	Set up a cron job to auto-publish the API epydocs	Completed		Done
Project : Community
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Mitchell Baker	Prepare for 0.3	Completed	Review docs and release.	Done
Mitchell Baker	Attend Community Working Group meetin g	In progress	Attend, consider PyCon needs and 0.3 needs.	Missed this due to PTO.
Mitchell Baker	Attend Management Committee and All Hands Meetings; create and distribute notes from each.	In progress	Attend meetings. Create and distribute notes.	Missed the Management Committee meeting due to vacation. No All Hands meeting this week.
Mitchell Baker	Help all working groups define a reasonable set of community related goals for the 0.4 release.	In progress	Do a bit more work on potential repository goals. The CWG is using the repository as a starting point because it's comparatively far along and we can also bounce ideas off of Ted.	Focused on the 0.3 release.
Mitchell Baker	Periodic discussions of community related topics at the All Hands and Management Committee meetings.	In progress	No plans for this week.	Agreed with Mitch that updates at the Management Committee meetings could be useful, since the Community activities aren't always as clear to everyone.
Mitchell Baker	Evaluate the use of one or more Common Cause licenses for the content of the OSAF wikis.	Not started	Probably won't get too far in this this week. I think it's late to make the and 0.3 deliverable, but it could become an 0.4 community deliverable.	Didn't get anywhere near this project this week.
Pieter Hartsook	Worked on two approaches for a revised Help Us webpage.	Completed	Idea is to have a simple intuitive location to refer people wanting to help OSAF so they can see if and when we might have something for them to do. Mitch wants a narrative describing and listing areas for assistance so that anyone landing on the page can easily read and understand the scope of options.	Replaced the Volunteer page on website with the Help Us project page on the Wiki
Pieter Hartsook	Figure out how to record and present videos of Chandler demos to the community.	In progress	Figure out how to record and present videos of Chandler demos to the community.	deferred until next week
Ted Leung	Coordinate PyCon 2004 sprints	In progress	Ongoing	Sent E-mail announcements regarding 0.3 release and sprint Blogged 0.3 release and sprint
Ted Leung	PyCon 2004 logistics	In progress	On hold until next week
Ducky Sherwood	Announce and moderate IRC Office Hours.	Completed	Announce and moderate IRC Office Hours.	Done
Ducky Sherwood	Attend and post minutes for Community Working Group meeting	Completed	Attend and post minutes for Community Working Group meeting	Done
Ducky Sherwood	Add the "bugs closed". Add "# downloads" and # patches" if I can get that information programmatically. Need to add Lines Of Code committed per week. Need to add bugs closed.	In progress	Probably won't get to this this week.
Project : Community / Wiki
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Pieter Hartsook	Explore solutions for managing local translations of Chandler documents (website pages, Wiki pages, developer docs, etc.)	Not started	Get in touch with open office folks to get details of how they manage the various regional translations of documents.
Ducky Sherwood	Fix up Wiki style guide per discussion with Brian: mention that camelcaps is preferable to all-caps, mention hyphens causing trouble, centralize all wiki style information.	Completed	Fix up Wiki style guide per discussion with Brian: mention that camelcaps is preferable to all-caps, mention hyphens causing trouble, centralize all wiki style information.	Done.
Project : Marketing
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Pieter Hartsook	Work on draft of questions to present as a survey to NITLE schools	In progress	Work on draft of questions to present as a survey to NITLE schools. Goal is to validate any differences in requirements, usage, administration, or use from CSG schools. Run draft by Chao and Mitch early next week. Send to Scott to distribute as a survey in mid-February.	Scott formulated a draft on-line questionnaire. I provided feedback for some minor changes, forwarded on to Chao for his comments. Scott also sent to Clara Yu the NITLE coordinator, for her suggestions and to get the distribution list for emailing the final version. Expect to field the survey 1st week in March.
Mitch Kapor		Completed	blog an entry on .3 release	done
Project : Marketing / Events
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Mitchell Baker	Prepare outline for presentation to the NWACC Annual Retreat, June 16-18.	Not started	Not sure I'll get to the outline this week; the week is looking busy already.	Didn't get to this at all.
Project : Marketing / Marcomm
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Pieter Hartsook	Worked on two approaches for a revised Help Us webpage.	Completed	Idea is to have a simple intuitive location to refer people wanting to help OSAF so they can see if and when we might have something for them to do. Mitch wants a narrative describing and listing areas for assistance so that anyone landing on the page can easily read and understand the scope of options.	Replaced the Volunteer page on website with the Help Us project page on the Wiki
Pieter Hartsook	Figure out how to record and present videos of Chandler demos to the community.	In progress	Figure out how to record and present videos of Chandler demos to the community.	deferred until next week
Pieter Hartsook	Respond to email enquiries and requests, keep the website updated, post status manager reports, etc.	In progress	Respond to email enquiries and requests, keep the website updated, post status manager reports, etc. Email that comes to info @ osafoundation.org as well as to Mitch.	Ongoing task. Email comes from the public, those requesting speakers for confrences, journalists, etc. Website updates include announcements, new hires, job postings, updated FAQ's, new and edited descriptive documents, changes to the Navbar, etc. Status Manager review company-wide reports for formatting problems, generate reports, and post to wiki.
Pieter Hartsook	Work on the bi-weekly Status Update report for the website, Wiki, and dev maillist.	In progress	Get the darn report out the door.	blah
Pieter Hartsook	Explore solutions for managing local translations of Chandler documents (website pages, Wiki pages, developer docs, etc.)	Not started	Get in touch with open office folks to get details of how they manage the various regional translations of documents.
Pieter Hartsook	Review, coordinate, post 0.3 non-dev documentation including announcements.	Not started	Review, coordinate, post 0.3 non-dev documentation including announcements.	completed, see Bug#1244
Heikki Toivonen	The website developer section could be better; write proposal to Pieter. Also builds.osafoundation.org should have more information on it.	In progress	Write proposals, and in the case of builds maybe modify it myself. We should get more developer tools links on builds.	Refined this a little with Pieter.
Project : Mozilla Foundation
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Bart Decrem	Oracle calendar followup	Not started	Talk to Marten, make progress on PRD, close loop with Fidelity.
Bart Decrem	Press release re:deployments	Not started	Talk to Catherine, agree on strategy re:deployments/partnerships press release.
Project : OSA Foundation / HR
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Mitchell Baker	Finish Minimum Continuing Legal Education and bar dues requirements.	In progress	figure out cost of dues and MCLE materials.	Not yet done.
Mitchell Baker	Work with Ducky to make the best use of her time in the community arena	In progress	Define tasks for this week.	Tasks were 0.3 related, but I didn't spend a lot of time with Ducky this week.
Brian Skinner	performance reviews	In progress	Fill out one of my five performance review forms.	Started on the first of the five performance reviews, and plan to finish it next week.
Project : OSA Foundation / Legal
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Mitchell Baker	Begin preparing documents and processes OSAF will use to accpet code from non-employees for inclusion as Chandler specific code into the OSAF tree. (Chandler-specific code means code written for Chandler, not code in existing projects which we use.)	Not started	Look at Apache contributor license to see if this will work for OSAF.
Project : OSA Foundation / System administration / Server
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Morgen Sagen	Set up a cron job to auto-publish the API epydocs	Completed		Done
Project : OSA Foundation / System administration / Status manager
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Pieter Hartsook	create a FAQ entry for the Status Manager tool for using the Summary flag.	In progress	create a FAQ entry for the Status Manager tool for using the Summary flag.
Project : To be assigned
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
John Anderson	Install new internet connection, new router and switch over to using DHCP instead of static IP addresses	In progress		It's hard to believe, but things seem to be working pretty well. I'm getting the advertised speed.
Jeffrey Harris	Create functionality to import/export Chandler data to standard formats, with special emphasis on Outlook.	In progress	Get code for importing Outlook Contacts exported to CSV working more smoothly, write export code. Test.	Worked on the appropriate mapping of Outlook Contacts to Chandler Contacts, put a lot of time into code that interprets general maps but still works well for the specific case of importing Outlook 2000 Contacts. Bumped into an odd bug in the Windows Python build (the _csv library isn't being generated, so Python 2.3's CSV support isn't working). Expanded the import code to be more modular and hopefully more useful for other import code.
Jeffrey Harris	Let people know my schedule for the week. I'm in Central (GMT -6:00).	In progress	Monday - Afternoon Tuesday - Morning Wednesday - Just during OSAF office hours Thurdsay - Morning Friday - Afternoon
Jeffrey Harris	Think about XML-RPC/SOAP and REST interfaces to get data from and into the repository.	In progress	See if I can write a quick hack as a demonstration in under an hour (low priority).	Didn't work on it.
Jeffrey Harris	Work on the Sample Data Project	Not started	Get a small amount of data from Brian, turn it into parcel.xml files.	Haven't yet received sample data.
Chao Lam	Do final testing of 0.3 and remainig release tasks for 0.3	Completed	Do final testing of 0.3 and remainig release tasks for 0.3	Done
Chao Lam	Prepare and attend bug council meeting	Completed	Prepare and attend bug council meeting	done
Chao Lam	Prepare and participate in 0.3 debrief	Completed	Prepare and participate in 0.3 debrief	Done
Chao Lam	Taking Friday off	Completed		Done
Chao Lam	Write 0.3 release exec summary and expectations setting	Completed	Write 0.3 release exec summary and expectations setting	done
Chao Lam	Wrap up sharing issues at design meeting	In progress	Wrap up sharing issues at design meeting	not done
Brian Skinner	unified project list	In progress	Work with Chao and Mimi to integrate the ProjectOverviewTable2005 with Mimi's "User Scenario's Framework", and figure out how best to unify design docs with UI design docs.	(+) Met with Chao and Mimi about document types and document templates. Follow-up meeting scheduled with Mimi for Monday. (+) Minor additional work on the ProjectOverviewTable2005

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