WeeklyStatus20060512

This report covers the period from April 29 - May 12 2006 (two weeks).

Highlights

• OSAF
  • Core team came to SF offices for "sprint week"
  • added to suites of functional and unit tests on all projects
  • sharing format discussions, across the 3 projects
• Chandler
  • finishing alpha3
• Cosmo
  • finishing 0.3
• Scooby
  • Attended Ajax experience conference

Design and PM (Sheila)

Progress:

• Chandler
  • 1.0 target user matrix and writeup
  • Last call for 1.0 element prioritization re: strategy discussion

• Scooby
  • Priss away so just working on 0.2.

Plans:

• Chandler
  • Focus on 1.0 work.
  • Some sprint week discussions - email, sharing, contacts
  • Alpha3 detailing continues
  • Support for alpha2 - bug triage etc.
• Scooby
  • Continued progress on 0.2 but developers in town for sprint week and attending AJAX conference.

Application WG (Philippe)

No meeting this week because of the Sprints

• Progress
  • wxcolumnHeader and new Markup toolbar landed, alpha2 officially code complete
  • Bug count low, less than 5 per person
  • The team had a bunch of meetings during the Sprint week: wx SVN and build strategies, i18n and dialogs, collection review and CPIA refactorization
• Plan
  • Nail alpha2
  • Plan alpha3 (tasks in and bugs triaged)

Platform WG (Katie)

• Progress
  • Bug fixing to wrap up alpha2
  • Added to growing body of functional tests at sprint
  • First cut at adding CalDAV free-busy-query REPORT to zanshin, changed zanshin to use setuptools
  • Continued testing and fixes on background sync -- now ready for more general testing
  • Sharing format meeting, including a proposal for how to frame the priorities/requirements
  • Stamping proposal and discussion -- Grant now owns stamping and other domain model issues
  • Dump/reload proposal and discussion
• Plans
  • Finish alpha2
  • Set performance goals for alpha3, write performance tests to track progress
  • alpha3 early exploration/technical design work: dump/reload, stamping
  • Once alpha2 is out, merge background sync branch to trunk

QA, Build and Release (Heikki/Mikeal)

Progress:

• Got lots of good new tests during sprint week.
• Started to refactor the Chandler automation system with a new framework and logger, branched on Friday to support QA development without breaking functional tests.
• Adam started in QA, he wrote a new cosmo test and is now working on the new Chandler automation framework.
• We've also continued testing on Chandler, Dan has filed lots of good bugs.

• Got a few drops of Cosmo 0.3 RC with varying issues; username character exceptions due to bad regular expressions, some code wasn't checked in to the 0.3-0.1 branch, and a bunch of foxmarks issues were found by Todd, Brian, John and Jared.

Plans:

• Expecting a new RC for cosmo 0.3.
• Expecting an RC for Chandler alpha2 next week sometime.
• Finishing up all the new chandler automation tasks to get the new framework and logger up and over the features and stability of CATS.

Cosmo and Scooby (John)

Progress:

• Cosmo
  • Cosmo continues to work towards a 0.3 release. We have produced a number of RC candidates, but have found problems with each that require fixes. The fixes have been made and testing continues.
  • During Sprint week, we worked with engineers from the Chandler Desktop group to formulate a stategy for rich sharing going forward. We are in agreeement about where we are heading and the high level strategy we will use to get there.
  • During Sprint week, we also worked on furthering our unit testing coverage for Cosmo and also general testing of the release candidates.

• Scooby
  • During Sprint Week, we put in place jsUnit, a unit testing framework for JavaScript!
  • We also wrote a series of tests for our JavaScript classes.
  • Bobby and Ted worked on unit testing for the ScoobyService^?. There were a number of issues to resolve with regards to security, but they plowed through them and have some running tests.
  • Scooby folks also sat in on the Sharing format discussions as well. Eventually, Scooby will become a consumer of the sharing format.
  • John and Matt attended the Ajax Experience conference, a conference focused on Ajax and Web 2.0 techniques and technologies. Very useful stuff. Matt and John are planning to write up trip reports and post them to their blogs.

Plans:

• Cosmo
  • Plain and simple: Get 0.3 released.
  • Start the work on free/busy reporting for 0.4.
  • Look into RSS support. How can we make RSS support help the ecosystem in the 0.7 timeframe?

• Scooby
  • Continue to make progress on 0.2 deliverables.
  • Help with Cosmo 0.3 testing as needed.
  • Think about Scooby 0.3 and beyond.
  • Start to put Dojo into our codebase and use it!

IT (Jared)

Progress:

Plans:

Community (Pieter/Ted)

Progress: * Google Summer of Code * Core Sprint Week * Cosmo and Scooby Landing pages Plans: * Chandler Landing page updates * Branding work * Portal Project work * Committer policy