WeeklyStatus20060519

This report covers the period from May 13-19 2006 (one week).

Highlights

• Chandler
  • wrapping up alpha2
  • working on background sync on a separate branch (testing help welcome)
• Cosmo
  • wrapping up 0.3
  • working on free-busy work for 0.4
• Scooby
  • introduced dojo toolkit to scooby -- LayoutWidget is the first widget in use

Design and PM (Sheila)

Progress:

• Chandler

• Scooby

Plans:

• Chandler

• Scooby

Application WG (Philippe)

• Progress
  • 0.7alpha2 nearly finished : couple of blocking bugs left
  • Sprint week was a great success
• Plan
  • Ship 0.7alpha2!
  • Start 0.7alpha3 : review bugs and tasks, SWAG and rebalance workload

More details available in AppsMeeting20060518

Platform WG (Katie)

• Progress
  • work on background sync (in separate branch), which was moved to alpha3
  • discussions about stamping implementation (annotations)
  • work on setuptools
  • work on eggs and i18n
  • unit tests for ChandlerSyncServices (and demo)
• Plans
  • work on dump/reload proposal
  • work on eggs and i18n
  • work on background sync
  • work on stamping (and other domain model topics)

QA, Build and Release (Heikki/Aparna)

Progress:

Plans:

Cosmo and Scooby (John)

Progress:

• Cosmo
  • Cosmo team continues to work towards an final 0.3 release. We worked through a number of problems and fixed them. This week we did a mini-stress test on qacosmo server (a number of us sharing, sync, refreshing, and reading calendars) from the same server using Chandler. Everything went pretty well the test.
  • We are on-track to do a release of Cosmo 0.3 on Monday. Stay tuned.
  • In the meantime, Brian has done a bunch of refactoring work on the reports implementation and has free/busy working. Our goal is to finish up the free/busy work required for Chandler 0.7 in the next 2 weeks (before Brian leaves on vacation). We're on track with the 0.4 release.
  • John has spent some time working on addressing two problems: RSS support for changes from Cosmo and Pagination support for the user directory in the Cosmo Admim console (using Dojo and Ajax). Nothing to checkin yet, still trying things out.

• Scooby
  • Scooby team continues to work on 0.2 deliverables. Everything is on track at this point.
  • Bobby invented the .jsar ~ the JavaScript archive format for packaging our external JavaScript code into packages that we can use for Maven Dependencies. In addition, he put in place a Maven plugin that uses the .jsar packages. This allows us to package up the JSON-RPC and Dojo libraries into maven packages in the repository. This is a huge win for maintenance of our codebase.
  • We introduced the Dojo toolkit to our code. Matt introduced the first Dojo widget: the LayoutWidget^?. This widget is responsible for the overall layout of the scooby UI (the main page).
  • Matt also spent some time working on refactoring the fluid UI design. We're moving to a percentage based CSS design. This isn't checked in yet, but should be a nice change for Scooby and eliminate a bunch of calculation code.

Plans:

• Cosmo
  • Get 0.3 released.
  • Continue to work on 0.4 free/busy reporting.
  • Sharing format.. need to get this off the ground and get the discussion flowing on this one.
  • RSS.. do some testing and figure out what we can support and what will work to satisfy the needs of a change notification for the eco-system.
  • Console UI pagination improvements.. spend some additional time on this week.

• Scooby
  • Continue to work on 0.2 release.
  • Think about theme for 0.3 release (and the timing).
  • Work on fluid UI implementation.
  • Get discussion flowing around ideas for refactoring using Dojo.

IT (Jared)

Progress:

Plans:

Community (Pieter/Ted)

Progress:

Plans: