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Weekly Report - July 11-17

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July 11th - July 17th  
Project : Categories / Higher education
PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
Pieter HartsookCoordination for the Higher Ed Recalibration meetingIn progressCoordination for the Higher Ed Recalibration meeting. Work on agenda, attendee coordination, etc.
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.

    Created a Wiki page to organize and coordinate this project:
    HigherEdMarketingMaterials20040702
    Project : Categories / Product design
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Chao LamProvide email design requirements for 0.4 targetCompletedWaiting for apps team to discuss first draftMeeting next week to discuss draft
    Chao LamReview Andy's Meeting Post proposalCompletedReview Andy's Meeting Post proposaldone
    Chao LamPropose rough 0.5 planIn progressBrainstorm with Mimi use cases. Arrive at plan for 0.5 plan.
    Project : Chandler development
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Lisa Dusseault0.4A Planning, ongoingCompletedFind out which features were incomplete in 0.4A and slip them to 0.4B. Sanity test 0.4A build Jul 13. Run QA IRC Jul 14.Updating and running code today to ensure 0.4A met smoothly. Reviewed Stuart's code. Wrote ZeroPointFourAResults to document the few things that need to be finished this week. Ran IRC chat.
    Lisa Dusseault0.4B PlanningIn progressRedefine Stuart's goals: details of finishing sharing, and find out what to do with ItemCollection?, including John's requestsRevised WebdavService and EmailService with lists of tasks, non-tasks, and simplifying assumptions.
    Mark JaffeInvestigation of Subversion as new SCM toolIn progressDefer until after milestone build.
    Ted LeungGeneral architecture stuffIn progressWork on addressing API

    Work on item clouds


    Work on data model spec

    Relationship kinds

    Deferring addressing API to after Integration Point A

    Attended Stamping and Item clouds mtg

    Attended Stamping Code review
    Katie ParlanteResolve open engineering/architecture issues: EngineeringIssuesCompleted(+) careful readthrough of latest sharing docs


    (+) sharing meeting

    I'm going to close this as a specific task and create individual tasks.
    Katie ParlantePerformanceIn progressFollow up on performance workTalked about performance at apps meeting, highlighting switching views as a use case to look at, as well as setting up the main view. We looked at Morgen and Nick's profiles: PerformanceProject
    Project : Chandler development / Application
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Katie Parlante0.4 release planningIn progress(+) integration point A
    (+) set up planning meetings: menus, sharing, email, tabbed views
    (+) recalibrate integration point B
    (+) decided to extend integration point A a week to focus on bug fixing, code reviews, etc.
    (+) sharing meeting, detail view meeting
    (+) went through bug list and distinguished between bugs for the next milestone (0.3.21) and for the .4 release (and invalidated others, or moved to .5 release). The 0.3.21 list is probably still too long.
    Project : Chandler development / Application / Content model
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Lisa DusseaultDeal with contact content model issues raised by JeffreyCompletedConfirm whether to add Suffix, Department, Profession, TTY/TTD phone, and Title. Get feedback from Mitch on proposal for importing informationDone
    Lisa DusseaultDefine Item Clouds for emails, tasks, notes, events and contactsIn progressDiscuss stamping interactions with Donn; figure out if participants workDiscussed stamping interactions with Donn, Ted and Morgen. Added notes to LisaDusseault20040715. Decided to add item clouds to simple Event kind first.
    Project : Chandler development / Capplets / Primary / Calendar
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Katie ParlanteCalendar blocksIn progress(+) Functional spec for calendar blocks
    (+) integration point A calendar functionality
    (+) talked to john about calendar decomposition, got some good ideas for going foward

    (+) started a functional spec: CalendarFunctionalSpec

    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, focused on .4A
    Project : Chandler development / Framework / CPIA
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Donn DenmanBuild CPIA's Content Detail ViewIn progressFinish stamping and focus on testing, robustness, code cleanup, and display glitches that could reflect issues in the underlying architecture.Stamping is now supported in the Detail View. We also display the Kind of the item being viewed (to help with stamping). I cleaned up the display of the Detail View removing or disabling scaffolding features or parts that are not yet implemented.
    Donn DenmanDevelop CPIA architecture in areas of synergy to the Detail ViewIn progressComplete Stamping for milestone A. Focus on testing, robustness and code cleanup and documentation of recently added features. Wrote a unit test for stamping and made a few bug fixes. Stamping seems to work pretty well now.

    Updated the Wiki on the StampingModel?.

    Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Ted LeungRepository WG coodinationIn progress Addeded Milestone Meeting


    Coordinated with Andi for code reviews

    Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository / Query
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Ted LeungImplement naive (no optimizer) query execution engineIn progressImplement Query execution engineWorking away
    Project : Chandler development / Framework / Sharing/Discovery
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Lisa DusseaultDefine protocol architecture requirementsIn progressParticipate in service deployment meeting. Draw diagrams for wiki to track/describe network architectures.Had service deployment meeting.
    Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / QA
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Ducky SherwoodHelp Heikki clean out Bugzilla.In progressHelp Heikki clean out Bugzilla.Marked one bug INVALID.
    Mimi YinQAIn progress First meeting with Aparna to move towards a collaborative process for UI QA. Started up an informal wiki page to track visual bugs.
    Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / Releases
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Katie Parlante0.4 release planningIn progress(+) integration point A
    (+) set up planning meetings: menus, sharing, email, tabbed views

    (+) recalibrate integration point B

    (+) decided to extend integration point A a week to focus on bug fixing, code reviews, etc.
    (+) sharing meeting, detail view meeting
    (+) went through bug list and distinguished between bugs for the next milestone (0.3.21) and for the .4 release (and invalidated others, or moved to .5 release). The 0.3.21 list is probably still too long.
    Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / UI design
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Mimi YinContactsIn progress Updated contacts with workflows and a brief discussion of structure as well as a proposed wireframe for fully functional contact detail view. (Planned for .5)
    Mimi YinDetail viewsIn progress Updated <AHREF=http://wiki.osafoundation.org/twiki/bin/view/Chandler/DetailViewSpec>detail view with new wireframes, reorganized Structure discussion and more fine-tune .4 target. Went over it with Chao. Meeting with Donn on Thursday.
    Mimi YinMundane FeaturesIn progress Second round of work on Preferences panel for setting up Accounts in .4 (POP, IMAP and Sharing WebDAV)
    Mimi YinQAIn progress First meeting with Aparna to move towards a collaborative process for UI QA. Started up an informal wiki page to track visual bugs.
    Mimi YinQueries / Collections / ViewsIn progress Proposal for full-feature Rule Builder with wireframes and a spreadsheet of rule building clauses and phrases. Need to work with Chao to come up with a simplified version for .5, possibly only to satisfy Junk filtering use cases.
    Project : Chandler development / Tools
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Mark JaffeInvestigation of Subversion as new SCM toolIn progressDefer until after milestone build.
    Project : Chandler development / Tools / CVS
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Mark JaffeInvestigation of Subversion as new SCM toolIn progressDefer until after milestone build.
    Project : Chandler development / Tools / HardHat
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Mark JaffeInvestigation of Subversion as new SCM toolIn progressDefer until after milestone build.
    Project : Community
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Mitchell BakerAttend Community Working Group meetingIn progressAttend, discuss top issues.Done.
    Mitchell BakerAttend Management Committee and All Hands Meetings; create and distribute notes from Management Committee.In progressAttend meetings. Create and distribute notes for management committee.Done.
    Ted LeungOperational Community issuesIn progress Attended Community Working Group Mtg
    Ted LeungOSCON 2004In progressCoordinate OSAF presentationFirst run through of presentation
    Ducky SherwoodUpdate metrics and see what the bump in web page requests is from.In progressGet account on machine with web statistics.Looked at stats: there are about 23K more accesses to cvs.osafoundation.org/index.cgi/blah/blah/blah in the week of May 23 than there are for the week of May 16th, for no obvious reason. Asked markie about that.
    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.Using the wiki INCLUDE feature isn't practical because you can only have one include per wiki page with the current wiki configuration. I've started to look into a plugin that allows for multiple includes per page, but I need to get tidepool up and running to really test it out.
    Project : Community / Wiki
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Ducky SherwoodTest and tweak new wiki skins in situ.CompletedTest and tweak new wiki skins in situ. In particular, look harder at borders and font size.
    Ducky SherwoodWork with Pieter to get copyright notices on all wiki pages.CompletedDeliver list of all the email addresses of all the people who have edited something other than their "home" wiki page; deliver list of all email addresses of all people who have edited any page.Done
    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.
    Project : IETF
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Lisa DusseaultWebDAV: Resolve IF_AND_AUTH and LOCK_SEMANTICS issues re-raised by Julian Apr 25.CompletedSubmit RFC2518bis draft -06Submitted RFC2518bis draft -06 with lots of locking changes.
    Lisa DusseaultStandardize PATCH proposal to make WebDAV writes higher performanceIn progressRevise by deadlineStarted revision, exchanged emails, finished -03, submitted to internet-drafts.
    Project : Marketing / Events
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Pieter Hartsooke-mail communications to settle the description for the EDUCAUSE presentation in OctoberCompletede-mail communications to settle the description for the EDUCAUSE presentation in Octoberdone, still need photo of Mitch though
    Pieter HartsookCoordination for the Higher Ed Recalibration meetingIn progressCoordination for the Higher Ed Recalibration meeting. Work on agenda, attendee coordination, etc.
    Pieter HartsookOSCON panel presentationIn progressOSCON panel presentationWork with presenters to compile and edit their powerpoint presentations. Coordinate rehearsals.
    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.
    Created a Wiki page to organize and coordinate this project:
    HigherEdMarketingMaterials20040702
    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.
    Project : OSA Foundation / System administration / Desktop
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Ducky SherwoodFinish getting tidepool (laptop) configured.CompletedFinish getting tidepool (laptop) configured. Need RSS reader, crossover, local twiki running, power management.

    Need to get apache2 configured (for local copy of wiki).

    Printing set up. RSS reader installed. Chris got system bell and external USB keyboard support working. Dual display still has some uh opportunities.

    Still can't make Thunderbird open links in a new tab in the background of Firefox, despite Chris and I both trying extensions that are reputed to do the job (and that seem to work on Windows). Still need crossover, apache2/local twiki, power management.
    Project : To be assigned
    PersonGoalStatusPlanned this weekProgress this week
    Mitchell BakerWork with other KKIE members to develop a shared value statement. In progressAssist Caroline as needed.Reviewed and commented on Carolines draft.
    Pieter HartsookPrepare suggestion for adoption of Common Cause license for the OSAF website and wikiIn progressPrepare suggestion for adoption of Common Cause license for the OSAF website and wiki Draft an e-mail to the Wiki contributors notifying them of the impending change in Wiki content license. This is based on a cgi script that Ducky created that dynamicaly lists the particular contributors of each Wiki page.see Wiki page example at: CommunityGroupMeeting20040727
    Mark JaffeCompletely close bug List for next milestone.In progressDo-able for 0.3-20 (P1 & P2)

    P1
    1452 - move debug & release under chandler
    P2
    1556 - Remove PyXML from the build
    1561 - PyLucene needs to move to external
    1575 - external/PyLucene needs to be upgraded to version 0.5.1

    Mark JaffeMaintain external and internal modules in repository.In progressRelease version 0.3-10 of external which replaces PyLucene-0.5 with PyLucene-0.5.1, and removes pyxml.
    Chao LamResearch WebDAV hosting landscape and issues. Meet with Jürgen and Lisa to discuss.CompletedResearch WebDAV hosting landscape and issues. Meet with Jürgen and Lisa to discuss.done. Wrote up WebDAVHostingProject
    Chao LamResolve 0.4 targets for
    - Detail View
    - Email
    - Sharing
    CompletedRead up and meet with Donn and Mimi about Detail Viewdone
    Chao LamResolve IMAP/Chandler email issues with Mimi and Brian (goal to have plan signed off by Oct)CompletedReview Mimi's discussions and decisions with Mitch. Decide on next steps
    Chao LamWorking out 0.4 pref panels with MimiCompletedWorking out 0.4 pref panels with Mimidone
    Ducky SherwoodArrange, announce, and moderate office hours.Completed Done
    Ducky SherwoodAttend and write up notes for Community Working Group meeting.Completed Done
    Ducky SherwoodAttend OSCON runthrough and give feedback.Completed Done
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