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Weekly Report - July 4-10

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July 4th - July 10th  
Project : Categories / Higher education
PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
Pieter HartsookDevelop list of potential product collateral materials that could be used in higher education settings to explain:
  • OSAF

  • Chandler
  • Westwood
In progressDevelop list of potential product collateral materials that could be used in higher education settings to explain:
  • OSAF
  • Chandler
  • Westwood

  • These should address a target audience of potential aadopters,

    • Users
    • Decision makers
    • Administrators

    In addition to higher education, this material could also server a background information for interested general users, press & analysts, potential donors, etc.
    Project : Categories / Product design
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Chao LamProvide email design requirements for 0.4 targetCompletedCreate first draftdone
    Project : Chandler development
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Lisa Dusseault0.4A Planning, ongoingCompletedIdentify "at risk" features for 0.4A integration point.
    Plan for 0.4A test week (Jul 13-20) with goals & success metrics.
    Identified "at risk" tasks in weekly eng management coordination meeting.
    Ted LeungGeneral architecture stuffIn progressWork on addressing API


    Work on item clouds

    Work on data model spec

    Relationship kinds

    Addressing API is turning out to have some unanticipated problems

    Attended meeting on Arch
    Katie Parlantebugzilla cleanupCompletedsend email out about improving bugzilla components to match current projects(+) email discussion with heikki about components, heikki made the changes

    (+) removed a bunch of old bugs

    Katie ParlanteResolve open engineering/architecture issues: EngineeringIssuesCompleted(+) write up big picture for addressing
    (+) internationalization followup
    (+) stamping followup
    (+) copy policy/other policy/cloud follow up
    (+) clean up issue tracking, focus
    (+) careful readthrough of latest sharing docs


    (+) wrote up addressing: ZeroPointFourAddressingSummary
    (+) started collecting i18n: InternationalizationProject
    (+) some cleanup: EngineeringIssues
    Katie ParlantePerformanceIn progressFollow up on performance work(+) a couple of conversations with Ted, Andi, Morgen
    (+) made the decision not to do Morgen's fix for .4, although we might do that in .5

    (+) started a performance project page: PerformanceProject (Morgen wrote up his work)

    Project : Chandler development / Application
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Katie Parlante0.4 release planningIn progressfocus on integration point Atarget: AppsMeeting20040706
    Morgen SagenGet PyCrust? back into ChandlerCompletedGet a menu item back in there to launch PyCrust? interactive shellDone
    Project : Chandler development / Application / Content model
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Lisa DusseaultContent model for Stamping -- see EndUserStampingModelSpecCompletedFinish implementing new Content Item content model hierarchy including where Note now fits in.Done (checked in, reviewed)
    Project : Chandler development / Capplets / Primary / Calendar
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Katie ParlanteCalendar blocksIn progress(+) Functional spec for calendar blocks
    (+) Add milestone targets to tasks in .4a

    (+) integration point A calendar functionality

    refactored Month and Week blocks to share a common superclass, improved event handling, added initial move/create behavior
    Project : Chandler development / Framework
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Katie ParlanteParcels/capplets proposalIn progressfigure out what needs to be done to wrap this up for .4 -- look at this after .4Ano progress
    Project : Chandler development / Framework / CPIA
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Jed BurgessHelped Donn get toolbar items to display text.Completed Done.
    Donn DenmanBuild CPIA's Content Detail ViewIn progressOnce stamping is supported in the Content Model, add stamping functionality to the Detail View.Basic support for Stamping in the Detail view is checked in. Some tweaking and testing is still needed.


    Investigated using mixinAClass and decided to use the existing mechanism (instance itemclass definitions).

    Now using Block Copy for multiple instances of the Detail View.

    Donn DenmanDevelop CPIA architecture in areas of synergy to the Detail ViewIn progressRework the Content Model to use Multiple Kinds. Set the stage for stamping one Kind of Item to another in the Content Model.Basic support for Stamping using Multiple Kinds is done, but not checked in and tested.

    Also added Label support to Toolbars, and new looks for the Navigation Bar.
    Project : Chandler development / Framework / Info management
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Jed BurgessCreate About Chandler menu item.Completed Done. Removed About Chandler from the sidebar and moved it to a menu command. Selecting it brings up an About Chandler dialog.
    Mimi Yin.4 planningIn progress Worked with Chao on .4 targets for Sharing and Email.
    Project : Chandler development / Framework / Parcel framework
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Morgen SagenImprove parcel loading frameworkCompletedWork on parcel reloading.
    Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Ted LeungRepository WG coodinationIn progress Attended Milestone/Engr Issues Meeting
    Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository / Query
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Ted LeungQuery parserCompletedGenerate query specific ASTDone
    Project : Chandler development / Framework / Security
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Heikki ToivonenContinue with Chandler Security Project: SecurityProjectIn progressGet code reviewed.
    Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / Releases
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Katie Parlante0.4 release planningIn progressfocus on integration point Atarget: AppsMeeting20040706
    Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / UI design
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Mimi Yin.4 planningIn progress Worked with Chao on .4 targets for Sharing and Email.
    Mimi YinCommunicationsIn progress Met with Mitch about IMAP issues. Came up with a general strategy outline in the Approach section. Still need to iron out smaller IMAP issues.
    Mimi YinContactsIn progress Put together new Contacts design page in the Jungle outlining basic and more complex use cases. Met with Mitch about it and came up with a general approach. Deferred more complex use cases that have to do with Item Collections and how they're inter-related in general. We will discuss those issues in the context of a general overview of Item Collections next week with Stuart.
    Mimi YinDetail viewsIn progress Cleaning up DetailViewSpec? for meeting with Donn next week. There are still some content model issues to iron out with Lisa.
    Mimi YinDocumentationIn progress Starting to reorganizing UIProject page.
    Mimi YinMundane FeaturesIn progress Started Preferences design page with wireframe for setting up email and sharing accounts and a lsit of status bar messages.
    Mimi YinOther researchIn progress Looked at Mooter, a graphical clustering search engine.

    Pieter pointed me to a different clustering search engine: InFind

    Met with Lee Iverson from the University of British Columbia about his efforts in studying personal relationships as a way to organize PIM data. Meeting notes.
    Project : Community
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Ted LeungOperational Community issuesIn progressMeet with Lee Iverson from UBCMet with Lee Iverson from UBC
    Ducky SherwoodAdd pylucene mailing list info to metrics page.CompletedAdd pylucene mailing list info to metrics page.Done
    Ducky SherwoodAttend Baypiggies.CompletedAttend Baypiggies.Done
    Ducky SherwoodAttend SVLUG.CompletedAttend SVLUG.Done
    Ducky SherwoodUpdate metrics and see what the bump in web page requests is from.In progressUpdate metrics and see what the bump in web page requests is from.Some metrics updated; turns out I need access to yet another machine to get access to the www logs.


    Heh. The logs I needed were still on hula.

    I see a 23K bump in accesses to cvs.osafoundation.org/index.cgi/*, which is about what the bump is. I don't know why there's that big bump.

    Ducky SherwoodWork with Pieter to come up with strategy for rolling up distributed working group status.In progressWork with Pieter to come up with strategy for rolling up distributed working group status.Harder than it looks; different groups have not only different formats, but different timescales.

    Also trouble using INCLUDES because some pages already have INCLUDES on them. It's time to investigate plugins for doing multiple include-snippets per page.
    Project : Community / Wiki
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Ducky SherwoodWork with Pieter to get copyright notices on all wiki pages.CompletedWork with Pieter to get copyright notices on all wiki pages.Had discussions about the right way to proceed with getting permissions for the copyright change.
    Ducky SherwoodOnce wiki skins have been tested, rework the wiki content to reflect that many items will always be accessible already, and so don't need as much prominence.In progressOnce wiki skins have been tested, rework the wiki content to reflect that many items will always be accessible already, and so don't need as much prominence.No real progress this week.
    Project : IETF
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Lisa DusseaultRead xcalendar proposalCompletedRead draft-hare-xcalendar-00.txtDone
    Lisa DusseaultWebDAV: Convert RFC2518bis to editable format (XML)CompletedFinish conversionDone
    Project : Marketing / Events
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Pieter HartsookCoordinate and support public eventsIn progressCoordinate and support public events. Setup and maintain Wiki pages for OSCON, Web 2, EDUCAUSE.see links from EventsAndMeetings
    Project : Marketing / Marcomm
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Pieter HartsookDevelop list of potential product collateral materials that could be used in higher education settings to explain:
    • OSAF
    • Chandler
    • Westwood
    In progressDevelop list of potential product collateral materials that could be used in higher education settings to explain:

    • OSAF
    • Chandler
    • Westwood

    These should address a target audience of potential aadopters,
    • Users
    • Decision makers

    • Administrators

    In addition to higher education, this material could also server a background information for interested general users, press & analysts, potential donors, etc.
    Pieter HartsookRespond to email inquiries and requests, keep the website updated, post status manager reports, etc.In progressRespond to email inquiries and requests, keep the website updated, post status manager reports, new hire info, etc. Monitor and respond to Email that comes to info @ osafoundation.org as well as some of the mail that is sent to Mitch. posted job listings to website and mail lists, maintained People page, archived old People info, created coded e-mail address for Aparna, etc.
    Project : OSA Foundation / System administration / Desktop
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Ducky SherwoodFinish getting tidepool (laptop) configured.CompletedFinish getting tidepool (laptop) configured.Almost all done. Still need to get local twiki running, need crossover, need RSS reader, need to get sound working, but I've moved from puddle to tidepool.
    Project : To be assigned
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Chao LamGo through remaining sharing issues pertinent to 0.4 and update SharingRevisitedCompletedGo through remaining sharing issues pertinent to 0.4 and update SharingRevisiteddone
    Chao LamResolve 0.4 targets for
    - Detail View
    - Email
    - Sharing
    CompletedCheck with Mimi on 0.4 Detail View proposal.

    Propose 0.4 email target
    Start on 0.4 sharing target

    Done except for Detail View
    Heikki ToivonenReading.In progressMy current reading list:

    • Learning Python 2nd ed by Ascher & Lutz

    • Python Programming Patterns by Thomas W. Christopher

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