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Weekly Report - July 18-24
Generated 02 August 10:30 am Grouped by Projects| July 18th - July 24th | ||||||||||
| Project : Categories / Higher education | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Pieter Hartsook | Coordination for the Higher Ed Recalibration meeting | In progress | Coordination for the Higher Ed Recalibration meeting. Work on agenda, attendee coordination, etc. | met with Chao to discuss agenda. Followed up with a reminder e-mail to invitees who had not RSVP'd. | ||||||
| Pieter Hartsook | Develop list of potential product collateral materials that could be used in higher education settings to explain:
| In progress | Develop list of potential product collateral materials that could be used in higher education settings to explain:
These should address a target audience of potential aadopters,
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 | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Chao Lam | Organize WebDAVHostingProject. Discuss with Mitch | Completed | Organize WebDAVHostingProject. Discuss with Mitch | done | ||||||
| Chao Lam | Provide email design requirements for 0.4 target | Completed | Meet with apps team to decide on 0.4 target | met up and approved 0.4 target | ||||||
| Chao Lam | Propose rough 0.5 plan | In progress | Discuss 0.5 plan for a plan with Mitch | done | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Lisa Dusseault | 0.4A Planning, ongoing | Completed | Build another 0.4A this week. Find out which features were incomplete in 0.4A and slip them to 0.4B. | Built 0.4A and tested it in IRC. Moved unfinished items or partial items to 0.4B planning. | ||||||
| Lisa Dusseault | 0.4B Planning | In progress | Find out what to do with ItemCollection?, including John's requests and bugs. Come up with ContentModel? plan. Come up with plan for security/accounts, with Heikki. | |||||||
| Mark Jaffe | Investigation of Subversion as new SCM tool | In progress | Defer until after milestone build. Investigate issues integrating with Tinderbox, Bonsai, LXR. | |||||||
| Ted Leung | General architecture stuff | In progress | Work on addressing API Work on item clouds Work on data model spec Relationship kinds | Attended Item clouds meeting Worked some on data model spec | ||||||
| Katie Parlante | Performance | In progress | (+) get apps team use cases profiled: switching views and starting main view | no progress this week | ||||||
| Katie Parlante | Addressing | Not started | follow through on getting changes into .4 | no progress this week | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Application | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Katie Parlante | 0.4 release planning | In progress | (+) get detail view tasks set up for .4B (+) get sharing and email tasks set up for .4B (+) get chrome tasks set up for .4B (+) get summary table view tasks set up for .4B (+) get cpia tasks set up for .4B (+) set up planning meetings: menus, email, tabbed views | (+) met with Donn and planned out detail view tasks: DetailViewProject (+) met with David and planned out wx tasks: Chandler.wxPythonProject (+) started sharing/email planning: SharingUIProject? (+) met with John and Jed about summary table and chrome tasks: ApplicationChromeProject, SummaryTableView? (+) met with Mimi and Chao about email (+) conversations with Chao about release and quality issue, Chao's writeup: ZeroPointFourQualityIssues, my thoughts on bug prioritization: KatieParlante20040726 | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Application / Content model | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Lisa Dusseault | Define Item Clouds for emails, tasks, notes, events and contacts | In progress | Think about participants more. Try implmenting item cloud for event first. | Made proposal for ContactRef? object. Added Item Cloud to Event and it works. Proposed changes to Parcel format. Initiated code review. | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Capplets / Primary / Calendar | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Katie Parlante | Calendar blocks | In progress | (+) functional spec for calendar blocks (+) start implementing new design | some work on new design, but no spec yet | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Framework | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Katie Parlante | Parcels/capplets proposal | In progress | figure out what needs to be done to wrap this up for .4 -- look at this after .4A | no progress this week | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Framework / CPIA | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Donn Denman | Build CPIA's Content Detail View | In progress | Rework the Menu layout to match our specification for the Out-Of-The-Box Menus. Disable menus that are not yet implemented. | Not done. | ||||||
| Donn Denman | Develop CPIA architecture in areas of synergy to the Detail View | In progress | Update and simplify Dynamic Container Blocks to use the normal blockParent hierarchy. | Done. I found a couple of bugs in the repository while doing this task. I wrote unit tests for the repository bugs, and they are now fixed. | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Framework / Info management | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Mimi Yin | .4 planning | In progress | Met with Katie about visual design standards and trade-offs for .4. | |||||||
| Mimi Yin | PPF-Past Present Future view aka Triage | In progress | Added notion of Archive collection and Archive Triage status. | |||||||
| Mimi Yin | Stamping and Ad-hoc Collections | In progress | Need to revamp Stamping Workflow document with new understanding of stamping and how email attributes are attached to items. | New, subtly nuanced semantics for the stamp formerly known as "Stamp as an Email". It will now be known as "Stamp as a Communications item". See the bottom (Comments) of the Stamping Workflow page. | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Framework / Parcel framework | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Morgen Sagen | Improve parcel loading framework | Completed | Work on parcel reloading. | Done | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Ted Leung | Repository WG coodination | In progress | Attended Milestone meeting Reviewed andi's code for: separating repository views and threads cloud copying dynamic mixins | |||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository / Data model | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Katie Parlante | item clouds and item copy | Not started | met about item clouds and copy | Notes on resolutions: KatieParlante20040723 | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Framework / Repository / Query | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Ted Leung | Implement naive (no optimizer) query execution engine | In progress | Implement Query execution engine | Simple predicate based queries are working but not integrated into Chandler | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / Releases | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Katie Parlante | 0.4 release planning | In progress | (+) get detail view tasks set up for .4B (+) get sharing and email tasks set up for .4B (+) get chrome tasks set up for .4B (+) get summary table view tasks set up for .4B (+) get cpia tasks set up for .4B (+) set up planning meetings: menus, email, tabbed views | (+) met with Donn and planned out detail view tasks: DetailViewProject (+) met with David and planned out wx tasks: Chandler.wxPythonProject (+) started sharing/email planning: SharingUIProject? (+) met with John and Jed about summary table and chrome tasks: ApplicationChromeProject, SummaryTableView? (+) met with Mimi and Chao about email (+) conversations with Chao about release and quality issue, Chao's writeup: ZeroPointFourQualityIssues, my thoughts on bug prioritization: KatieParlante20040726 | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Meta projects / UI design | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Mimi Yin | .4 planning | In progress | Met with Katie about visual design standards and trade-offs for .4. | |||||||
| Mimi Yin | Contacts | In progress | Need to figure out how contacts and contact groups fit in structurally to Chandler vis a vis stamping and the summary table view. | Updated Contacts design. Deferring Sectioned-based views of contacts for now. | ||||||
| Mimi Yin | Documentation | In progress | Cleaned up and updated the following documents to make them consistent with some of the structural changes to stamping, collections and triage we've made in the last couple of weeks: Sidebar Summary Table view Detail view | |||||||
| Mimi Yin | Other research | In progress | Checked out GIMP (open source Photoshop) as per Heikki's recommendation. Lesson learned: Don't mess with keyboard shortcuts in power tools. Read a little about ZigZag as per Grant's recommendation. Still need to install and play around with it. Heikki also sent me a screen of the Dartmouth Greenpass visual thumbprint verification UI. Chao sent me blog entry from Esther Dyson that fits in nicely with our new tweak to the Triage Workflow / Dashboard view: Archive and Auto-triage | |||||||
| Mimi Yin | PPF-Past Present Future view aka Triage | In progress | Added notion of Archive collection and Archive Triage status. | |||||||
| Mimi Yin | Queries / Collections / Views | In progress | Still need to iron on workflows and put up storyboard sketches to illustrate workflows. | Simplication of sidebar. Got rid of the notion of different kind-based types of collections (at least for .4). The kind filter is the primary way for users to access Kind-based views. Major overhaul of Rule-builder conceptually and wrt workflow. Moved old rule builder design proposal to the Jungle. | ||||||
| Mimi Yin | Stamping and Ad-hoc Collections | In progress | Need to revamp Stamping Workflow document with new understanding of stamping and how email attributes are attached to items. | New, subtly nuanced semantics for the stamp formerly known as "Stamp as an Email". It will now be known as "Stamp as a Communications item". See the bottom (Comments) of the Stamping Workflow page. | ||||||
| Mimi Yin | Usability | In progress | Need to coordinate with the Community WG and Ted re: collection sample data from the community. Discuss who to use for Triage Workflow exercises with Chao. Write up results of first session. | Tried out Dashboard view / Triage workflow usability exercise with friend from Amazon. Still need to post notes. Got go ahead from Mitch to continue doing this exercise with folks around the office. Gearing up to collect another round of sample data namely: Sidebars and Rules | ||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Tools | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Mark Jaffe | Investigation of Subversion as new SCM tool | In progress | Defer until after milestone build. Investigate issues integrating with Tinderbox, Bonsai, LXR. | |||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Tools / CVS | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Mark Jaffe | Investigation of Subversion as new SCM tool | In progress | Defer until after milestone build. Investigate issues integrating with Tinderbox, Bonsai, LXR. | |||||||
| Project : Chandler development / Tools / HardHat | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Mark Jaffe | Investigation of Subversion as new SCM tool | In progress | Defer until after milestone build. Investigate issues integrating with Tinderbox, Bonsai, LXR. | |||||||
| Project : Community | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Ted Leung | Operational Community issues | In progress | Attended Community Working Group Mtg | |||||||
| Ted Leung | OSCON 2004 | In progress | Coordinate OSAF presentation | Second presentation runthrough completed | ||||||
| Ducky Sherwood | Attend and publish minutes from Community Working Group. | Completed | Attend and publish minutes from Community Working Group. | Done. | ||||||
| Ducky Sherwood | Coordinate, announce, and moderate Office Hours. | Completed | Coordinate, announce, and moderate Office Hours. | Coordinated and moderated Office Hours. Delegated announcement to markie. | ||||||
| Ducky Sherwood | Update metrics and see what the bump in web page requests is from. | In progress | Update metrics and see what the bump in web page requests is from. | Now have access to access_logs; have updated downloads. status.o11n.org still doesn't exist, so I started rewriting the script, then got info from Morgen on how the old stats pages were generated, so ran those and massaged those. There is data missing; I asked Jürgen about backups from that period. Markie says the bump is from image and CSS on tinderbox fetching from www; I think this needs investigation. | ||||||
| Ducky Sherwood | Work with Pieter to come up with strategy for rolling up distributed working group status. | In progress | Work with Pieter to come up with strategy for rolling up distributed working group status. | Installed and tested the Named Include Sections plugin on puddle; it seems to work. That would help a lot in doing a roll-up. Asked Jürgen to install it on kahuna; I have it working on a mirror on tidepool. | ||||||
| Ducky Sherwood | Investigate logs to see why the big bump in RSS traffic last week. | Not started | Investigate logs to see why the big bump in RSS traffic last week. | |||||||
| Project : Community / Wiki | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Ducky Sherwood | Test and tweak new wiki skins in situ. | Completed | Reduce font size; make borders better. | |||||||
| Project : Marketing / Events | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Pieter Hartsook | Coordinate and support public events | Completed | Coordinate and support public events. Setup and maintain Wiki pages for OSCON, Web 2, EDUCAUSE. | take photos of Mitch for EDUCAUSE, rehearsal for OSCON | ||||||
| Pieter Hartsook | OSCON panel presentation | Completed | OSCON panel presentation | final rehearsal and practice and refine demo | ||||||
| Pieter Hartsook | Coordination for the Higher Ed Recalibration meeting | In progress | Coordination for the Higher Ed Recalibration meeting. Work on agenda, attendee coordination, etc. | met with Chao to discuss agenda. Followed up with a reminder e-mail to invitees who had not RSVP'd. | ||||||
| Project : Marketing / Marcomm | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Pieter Hartsook | Develop list of potential product collateral materials that could be used in higher education settings to explain:
| In progress | Develop list of potential product collateral materials that could be used in higher education settings to explain:
These should address a target audience of potential aadopters,
In addition to higher education, this material could also server a background information for interested general users, press & analysts, potential donors, etc. | |||||||
| Pieter Hartsook | Respond to email inquiries and requests, keep the website updated, post status manager reports, etc. | In progress | Respond 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. | ongoing | ||||||
| Project : OSA Foundation / System administration / Desktop | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Ducky Sherwood | Finish getting tidepool (laptop) configured. | Completed | Chris is working on fixing dual boot display problems, crossover. Need to get apache2/local twiki configured; need better power management. | Chris installed crossover and got dual boot working. We both worked on lockup -- which seemed to be related to ACPI power management -- and it seems to be working. Apache2 and the local twiki are now configured. Declaring victory. :-) | ||||||
| Project : To be assigned | ||||||||||
| Person | Goal | Status | Planned this week | Progress this week | ||||||
| Pieter Hartsook | Prepare suggestion for adoption of Common Cause license for the OSAF website and wiki | In progress | Prepare 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. | waiting for Mitch to approve | ||||||
| Mark Jaffe | Completely close bug List for next milestone. | In progress | Do-able for Integration Point A (P1 & P2) P1 1452 - move debug & release under chandler P2 1589 - Tinderbox client scripts should clean debug and release 1517 - Store more nightly builds and milestone builds 1468 - bz2_d.pyd linked to non-debug msvcr71.dll 1478 - Make OSAF report to CIA monitoring system 1475 - Apply Robin's patches to SWIG in external 1477 - Make wxPython build use external/swig | |||||||
| Chao Lam | Explore search and rules for 0.5 | Completed | Learn from Ted about status of search and queries. Brainstorm about rules with Mimi | done | ||||||
| Chao Lam | Resolve 0.4 targets for - Detail View - Sharing | Completed | refactored in remaining tasks | |||||||
| Chao Lam | Resolve IMAP/Chandler email issues with Mimi and Brian (goal to have plan signed off by Oct) | Completed | Review Mimi's discussions and decisions with Mitch. Decide on next steps | |||||||
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