OSAF Weekly Status 31 March 2006

This report covers the period from Mar 25-Mar 31 2006 (one week).

Highlights

• Chandler
  • 0.7 Timezone related changes
  • Sending and recieving stamped events is now operational
  • Timezones, hours in a day are now available as menu preferences
• Cosmo
  • Working on closing out 0.3 release. We have a small number of bugs to fix and the migration tool to finish (We are targeting the migration tool for Wed of this week)
• Scooby
  • Working on Scooby 0.2 planning. We now have the first pass for an in/out list and rough estimates for difficulty.

Design and PM (Sheila)

Progress:

• Chandler: specs for alpha 2 finished, work on stamping design session with storyboards
• Scooby: 0.2 planning - defining feature matrix

Plans:

• Chandler: stamping collaborative design session, next steps on 1.0 product plan, competive analysis, alpha 3 plan
• Scooby: 0.2 planning and presentation, finishing up non-code deliverables for 0.1

Application WG (Philippe)

• Progress
  • Progress on all main features for 0.7alpha2
    • Collection work
    • Free / busy (exporting)
    • Scheduling : receiving stamped events in Chandler operational
    • Styles document posted
• Plan
  • Continue to monitor 0.7alpha2 tasks and bugs count
  • Philippe to organize meeting on Build Policy
  • wx tarball : fix the remaining functional test breakage so that we can move forward
  • Jed to hold a Styles doc review

More details available in AppsMeeting20060330

Platform WG (Katie)

• Progress:
  • Bug#4520: Outbound and inbound email accounts now decoupled
  • Added conflict merge handling toOnIdle (required by background sync)
  • Repository bug fixes (Bug#5507, Bug#5497)
  • Timezone-related changes committed
  • Timezone and recurrence bug fixes (Bug#5524, Bug#5385, Bug#5482, Bug#4994)
  • 20% project work on Python 2.5
  • Implemented cloud definition support for Annotations
  • Implemented a runtime scheduling API forPeriodicTasks
  • PyLucene no longer uses SWIG
  • PyLucene geek talk
• Plans:
  • Bug#5209 Use new smart-naive datetime for all new events
  • Subscription-related fixes for 0.7alpha2
  • eggs and setuptools: get plugin support into the build, get setuptools 0.6a11 out, port plugins

QA, Build and Release (Heikki/Aparna)

• Progress:
  • Completed testing of Checkpoint build Chandler_osx_0.7alpha2.dev-r9990.app.
  • Completed testing of scooby 0.1 release.
  • Cosmo automation in progress - basic query, freebusy,invalid multi get, timerange query and foxcloud stuff tests are ported to HttpTest^? framework.

• Plans:
  • Chandler 0.7 test plans for the features that have the functional specs ready.
  • Port Heikki's ticket related tests from Silmut to HttpTest^? (mikeal's new framework)

Cosmo and Scooby (John)

Progress:

• Cosmo
  • Working on closing out 0.3 release. We have a small number of bugs to fix and the migration tool to finish (We are targeting the migration tool for Wed of this week)
  • FoxMarks is going to run some tests for us on the >35K user limit. This requires some changes to the test scripts and we are coordinating with Todd.
  • Mikael and Brian have been working to refactor our testing infrastructure. Mikael has also been working to automate our functional test suites.
• Scooby
  • Still working on Scooby 0.2 planning. We now have the first pass for an in/out list and rough estimates for difficulty.
  • We have a list of issues that we plan to push out the the Scooby mailing list this week for discussion. (Priscilla is coordinating this)
  • Fixes done on the 0.1 Scooby branch and have been merged back into Scooby 0.2 main trunk.

Plans:

• Cosmo
  • Get migration tool done this week. (Target is wednesday)
  • Fix remaining bugs for 0.3 (3-4 left to fix right now)
  • Get 0.3 release candidate into QAs hands this week.
• Scooby
  • Trim the list of items in the 0.2 release to a manageable subset.
  • Size/scope the release to make sure that its doable within a 8 week development cycle.
  • Write up specs for 0.2.
  • Kick off development for 0.2
  • Get discussions going on the mailing list for Scooby 0.2 features that need more discussion.

IT (Jared)

Progress:

Plans:

Community (Pieter/Ted)

Progress:

• The Core Sprint week has been scheduled for May 8-12.
• Still trying to get a date and time for the May WAC meeting, John Townsend and Sheila will attend.
• Initial placeholder pages set up in svn for landing page sites for Cosmo and Scooby. www-commits- mail list set up to send notifications of changes to the sites.
• Home page for PortalProject

Plans:

• Have 1st drafts for the Scooby and Cosmo landing pages completed for review to identify missing content.
• More progress on PortalProject Taxonomy