Weekly Report - May 30-June 5

Generated 07 June 5:55 pm Grouped by Projects

May 30th - June 5th
Project : Categories / Higher education
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Chao Lam	Plan and organize Higher Ed summer recalibration summit	In progress		Fixed dates for summit. Asked Pieter to help out on logistics issues. Replied to Oren with suggested plan for summit.
Project : Categories / Product design
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Chao Lam	Reviews design requirements for names and address with engineering. Figure out next steps	Completed	Reviews design requirements for names and address with engineering. Figure out next steps	done. Engineering is unblocked at this time.
Chao Lam	Arrive at high-level product schedule - what is the right approach to cutting features? - how do we satisfy both Canoga & Westwood constituencies in as timely a manner as possible? - how do we get a better idea of engineering costs without fine-grain planning?	In progress	Review high-level roadmap. Propose and decide on next steps.	Worked with Lisa on the next pass
Chao Lam	Arrive at sharing transport requirements and plan for selection	In progress	Moderate and facilitate sharing transport meeting. Decide on next steps	done
Chao Lam	Assist Mimi in collaborating with engineering on integration point A tasks - summary table view - detail view - DnD - chrome - calendar views	In progress	Meet about summary table view and calendar views	done. Got engineering sign-off on both views
Chao Lam	Propose interoperability plan	In progress		Had a brainstorm with Mitch to understand scope of interoperability. Agreed most of it is less urgent. Most urgent piece is to focus on interoperability and exportable addresses
Project : Chandler development
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Lisa Dusseault	0.4 Planning, ongoing	In progress	See if Content Item versioning really in 0.4 plan. More progress with Chao on bucketing. By Tuesday: Propose Development plan for all integration points, feature complete, etc.	Added more tasks to Chao's release bucket spreadsheet. Discussed Brad Silen's TaskBase^? with Pieter. Finished obsoleting ZeroPointFourAppsPlanning^? page. Drafted more detailed 0.4 plan including integration points and finish/release phase.
Katie Parlante	Resolve open engineering/architecture issues: EngineeringIssues	In progress	(+) follow up on addressing + design (meeting this week) (+) follow up on proposed api changes (+) threading (+) start looking into sharing related issues
Project : Chandler development / Application
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Katie Parlante	0.4 release planning	In progress	(+) meet with folks individually to make task lists real for each project (+) milestone (+) summary table view meeting
Project : Chandler development / Application / Content model
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Lisa Dusseault	I owe proposal for non-overlapping clouds... for Jun 1 architecture meeting	Completed		Done; in journal for Jun 1
Lisa Dusseault	Modify Calendar event content model based on Mitch's plan	In progress	Implement, test, etc.	Writing unit tests to make sure new Task schema is loading properly.
Stuart Parmenter	Work on Item Collections	In progress	Work on Item Collections
Project : Chandler development / Capplets / Primary / Calendar
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Katie Parlante	Calendar blocks	Not started	(+) Functional spec for calendar blocks (+) task list based on new spec
Project : Chandler development / Framework
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Lisa Dusseault	Define protocol architecture requirements	In progress	SOMEDAY: Work on blue-sky sharing use cases with Chao and Mitch	Had meeting on sharing protocol which resulted in several people going away to think about using servers as intermediaries (eg XMPP) or stores (eg WebDAV)
Lisa Dusseault	Resolve 2-layer addressing plans	In progress	none - waiting on others	Reviewed design team's requirements or goals for addressing in Thurs meeting.
Katie Parlante	Parcels/capplets proposal	In progress	(+) some quality time writing up proposal
Katie Parlante	queries/collections proposal	In progress	(+) review w/mitch and design team
Project : Chandler development / Framework / CPIA
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
John Anderson	replace mechanism for block's access of a widget and widget's access to block to a python pointer. This simplification is now possible because of the new pinning feature of the repository. Has pretty big consequences: much code is affected. assocation and overrides of *del* are eliminiated	Completed		Done
John Anderson	To implement "observable queries" a widget has to do a bunch of work that shouldn't be necessary. Eliminate the needs to: - subscribe to repository changes - implment *del* to unsubscribe to repository changes - Initialize scheduleUpdate and lastUpdateTime - Implement OnIdle^? to call wxSynchronizeWidget - Implement NeedsUpdate^? if any change causes an update Widgets should have an attribute "waitTimeBetweenUpdates" which sets the time between updates in seconds. If you don't set it in your widget *init*, it will be set to 0.4 seconds for you.	Completed		done
John Anderson	Use defaults in parcel XML to get rid of loads of unnecessary verbage	Completed		added 25 obvious defaults, which is surprising since Stuart said he didn't find any.
Jed Burgess	Bug#1469 - Menu items fire twice	In progress		I have a possible solution, but I need to do more testing to see if there are any side effects.
Jed Burgess	DnD Framework	In progress		I made a second pass at the DnD Framework and put some hooks into Chandler to actually use it in a meaningful way.
Donn Denman	Build CPIA's Content Detail View	In progress	Review implementation plan at our team meeting on Tuesday. Start implementation, hopefully completing stage 1.	Reviewed implementation plan. Started implementation. Stage 1 is mostly completed. Now starting on Stage 2 of the Detail View. Will commit changes to CVS when Stage 2 is done.
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Info management
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Jed Burgess	Layout selectors	In progress		Started implementing layout selectors for summary view.
Mimi Yin	PPF-Past Present Future view aka Triage	In progress		Triage structure proposal with more detailed use cases.
Mimi Yin	Stamping and Ad-hoc Collections	In progress		Revision of content model from design team perspective.
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Andi Vajda	PyLucene	In progress		- sent DbDirectory diffs to lucene - sent samples of DbDirectory usage to lucene
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository / Data model
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Andi Vajda	Make data model wonderful	In progress		- started implemention of read-only attribute values - continued implemention of read-only attribute values with lobs - added support for item instance memory pinning, solving staleness some - implemented ref collection-based path finding
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository / Persistence
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Andi Vajda	Make repository wonderful	In progress		- reworked loading of repository roots, removed 'container' dbxml index - reworked repository view support, surfaced view API - renamed getRepository() to getRepositoryView() and added Item.itsView
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Security
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Heikki Toivonen	Continue with Chandler Security Project: SecurityProject	In progress	Get OpenSSL and M2Crypto part of the new build. Checkin "Globals.crypto" services.	OpenSSL is now part of build, although there seems to be a bug on the Mac. M2Crypto still remains...
Project : Chandler development / Framework / Third party / wxPython
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Robin Dunn	Chapter reivews and editing for the wxPython book.	In progress	Chapter reivews and editing for the wxPython book.	Worked on outlines for the remaining chapters. Decided that I woudl write teh examples for each and Noel will write the text.
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.	Documented all sizer classes as well as a few others.
Katie Parlante	wxWidgets plan	In progress	(+) incorporate David's tasks into wxPython wiki page
Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / Releases
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Katie Parlante	0.4 release planning	In progress	(+) meet with folks individually to make task lists real for each project (+) milestone (+) summary table view meeting
Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / UI design
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Mimi Yin	Communications	In progress		First draft of proposal for the role of communications in Chandler and how Sharing, Email, and IM interact with our notion of stamping.
Mimi Yin	Other research	In progress		Brian sent me a link to a new photo organizer by HP which has some interesting ideas about capturing and displaying relationships and meta-data. (Need to find link.)
Mimi Yin	PPF-Past Present Future view aka Triage	In progress		Triage structure proposal with more detailed use cases.
Mimi Yin	Stamping and Ad-hoc Collections	In progress		Revision of content model from design team perspective.
Project : Chandler development / Tools / HardHat
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Heikki Toivonen	Next steps in build/release.	Completed	Have the second meeting, make plan.	Had our second meeting, finished with the agenda (some follow up with Ted and Jeffrey next week). Bugzilla should now show clear tasks and targeted milestones for all known build tasks until 0.3.21.
Project : Community
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Mitchell Baker	Attend Community Working Group meeting	In progress	Attend, discuss top issues.	done
Mitchell Baker	Attend Management Committee and All Hands Meetings; create and distribute notes from each.	In progress	Attend meetings. Create and distribute notes for management committee. Review Esther's notes for All Hands meetings.	Done. Soon Esther won't need me to review her notes.
Mitchell Baker	Figure out what needs to be done to comply with government regulations once Chandler has encryption technology included.	In progress	Tried to track down our best contact, but no response. Possible he's left AOL.	None.
Mitchell Baker	Help all working groups define a reasonable set of community related goals for the 0.4 release.	In progress	Assist working groups as requested.	No requests this week.
Mitchell Baker	Periodic discussions of community related topics at the All Hands and Management Committee meetings.	In progress	No plans this week.	None.
Mitchell Baker	Evaluate the use of one or more Common Cause licenses for the content of the OSAF wikis.	In progress	Review Pieter's suggestion for Attribution license for the www. website to begin.	Sent mail to the Creative Commons folks asking about requriing attributon for a group, such as "the Contributors to the OSAF website" with perhaps a URL identifying appropriatee people. No response to date.
Ducky Sherwood	Get a first pass of wiki "view" and "preview" skins to Juergen.	In progress	Get a first pass of wiki "view" and "preview" skins to Juergen.
Ducky Sherwood	Get shtoom working on Linux.	In progress	Get shtoom working on Linux.
Project : IETF
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Lisa Dusseault	IMAPEXT: Finish 'annotate' draft	In progress	(Later in June: prepare for last call; ask for at least 3 reviews, preferably 5.)	Asked for close of discussion and new draft.
Lisa Dusseault	IMAPEXT: Finish i18n draft	In progress	For future: get somebody like Patrik to review i18n draft	Arnt published -02 -- I read it
Project : Marketing
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Pieter Hartsook	Marketing materials design and preparation.	Completed	Marketing planning: Begin to plan a project to prepare explanatory materials for Chandleresque concepts. These will include things like: Items Collections Views Sharing The idea is to help explain "what is special about Chandler" to a variety of audiences. The focus will be on the application functional level rather than architectural. This project will attempt "conceptual fidelity" not necessarily graphic fidelity. In other words we most likely would use hand-drawn graphics rather than actual screenshots. Initial input and review will be required from Mitch and Mimi especially. We would not expect Mimi to actually generate the final graphics (overload).	Discussion with Mitch. A full marketing plan may be premature. However the ultimate goal would be to sync marketing and marketing communications with the development road map. Will begin work on a specific project to create some materials to explain what is special about Chandler. Not focusing on the architecture, but on the functionality. In the process to elucidate Changleresque concepts like Items, Collections, Views, and Sharing. The goal will be conceptual fidelity as contrasted with specific UI or feature fidelity, i.e. we may use artist sketches/storyboards rather than screen shots to explain how things work.
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.	In progress	None this week.	None.
Pieter Hartsook	OSCON planning	In progress	OSCON planning. Work up budget worksheet to figure out how many can go to OSCON within the budget Mitch approved.	Researched the various costs. Estimated that we can send 6 or 7 people in addition to Mitch, Mitchell, & Ted. Lisa and Katie need to select who should attend. Then we still need to lock down the presentation topic and BOF.
Project : Marketing / Marcomm
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Pieter Hartsook	work with Ted on framing announcement about PyLucene project.	In progress	work with Ted on framing announcement about PyLucene project.	got a copy of the e-mail that Ted sent to Mitch outlining goals, benefits, risks, and how to do it. Will wait until it's about ready to roll out with all the infrastructure set up before I craft the announcements. (Maybe 2-3 weeks?)
Project : Marketing / Marcomm / Web site
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Pieter Hartsook	Continue to explore IBIS method for facilitating and documenting complex decisions	Completed	Continue to explore IBIS method for facilitating and documenting complex decisions. There is a new version of the software that does a much better html export.	Conclusion: the software tool looks like it is useful in some cases to document the decision making process to reveal the complexity of the pro and con arguments. I will continue to use it where appropriate.
Project : OSA Foundation / HR
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Mitchell Baker	Finish Minimum Continuing Legal Education and bar dues requirements.	Completed	Get reimbursement	Done.
Project : OSA Foundation / HR / Hiring
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Chao Lam	Hire new program manager	In progress	Write up formal job description. Get Suzette's help	done
Project : OSA Foundation / System administration / Status manager
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Pieter Hartsook	Make the Status Manager reports, easier to create, edit and post. It appears that each week's report is viewed about 100 times after is posted to the Journal Wiki. I review the aggregate report for broken links, bad html formatting, etc. so the public view of our doesn't look sloppy or careless.	Completed	Discussion with Mitch re. transition from the Status Manager tool to other methods of reporting progress.	Will continue with the Status Manager for the time being, but expect changes in reporting activities to parallel changes in management tools.
Project : To be assigned
Person	Goal	Status	Planned this week	Progress this week
Mitchell Baker	Prepare for April 20 talk at Internet2	In progress	Get reimbursement request submitted.	Partially assembled.
Mitchell Baker	Work with other KKIE members to develop a shared value statement.	In progress	Wait for next steps from Caroline.	Caroline is away, so no progress.
Robin Dunn	Make a modification to SWIG to allow specification of the package that a module will live in. This is so other modules that %import it will be able to correctly import it via the package name.	Completed	Make a modification to SWIG to allow specification of the package that a module will live in. This is so other modules that %import it will be able to correctly import it via the package name.	Done.
Robin Dunn	Begin working with Vaclav to setup bakefile, autoconf and etc. for building wxPython	In progress	Begin working with Vaclav to setup bakefile, autoconf and etc. for building wxPython	Had more discussion with Vaclav. Ball is in his court.
Robin Dunn	Lots of little fixes and tweaks preparing for the 2.5.2 release.	In progress	Lots of little fixes and tweaks preparing for the 2.5.2 release.	Still more...
Robin Dunn	Work on slides and sample code my OSCON presentations. (Two tutorials and a regular conference session.)	In progress	Work on slides and sample code my OSCON presentations. (Two tutorials and a regular conference session.)	More updates to the first tutorial, started outline for the second.
Robin Dunn	Consider proposals from wxPython-users about how to install wxPython such that multiple versions of wxPython can be on the system at the same time.	Not started	Consider proposals from wxPython-users about how to install wxPython such that multiple versions of wxPython can be on the system at the same time.	I'm going to back-burner this task until after the 2.5.2 release.
Robin Dunn	Start the release cycle for a 2.5.2.x version of wxPython	Not started	Start the release cycle for a 2.5.2.x version of wxPython
Chao Lam	Clean up sharing design doc. Write overview section.	In progress	Clean up sharing design doc. Write overview section.	Read through design doc only
Chao Lam	Propose end-user input plan	In progress		Got Mitch approval for micro-experiment
Chao Lam	Discuss Sharing Circle requirement and 0.4 target with Mitch	Not started	Discuss Sharing Circle requirement and 0.4 target with Mitch
Heikki Toivonen	Reading.	In progress	My current reading list: Secrets and Lies by Bruce Schneier Learning Python 2nd ed by Ascher & Lutz Python Programming Patterns by Thomas W. Christopher	About half done with Secrets and Lies. A little disappointed, the book feels old even though it was published in 2000 and a chapter was revised in 2004.

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