The Chandler Project Blog

Highlights

• Chandler milestone 0.5.m4 completed, QA approved, released

Design

• Progress: Big virtuality presentation and papers/images. New sidebar icons. Updated recurrence and sidebar specs. Working on triage prototype with Chao.
• Plans: Review M5 plans and tasks. continue work on design Wiki pages, start planning for OSCon presentations. More 0.7 planning.

Applications

• Progress: Edit mode shading, bevelling, minical alignment, blocking bug fixes for milestone.
• Plans: Recurrence UI checkin, scoping/estimation work for milestone 5

Services:

• Progress: Published new version of RFC2518bis proposal. Tickets support in zanshin library. I18n work moving into impl. mode and resolving issues with attribute redirection.
• Plans: Ticket support in sharing. Timezone impl. beginning, sharing termination work, recurrence work
• Personnel: Lisa OOF (vacation and conference) until Aug 8; Heikki back

Dev platform:

• Progress: Flickr parcel work, repo viewer update, adding items to packs, Item collection branch created and checkins made, UString and BString types in core schema for i18n, performance work planning
• Plans: Finish Set work, more PyICU work, help other teams with Item collection integration, parcel and platform proposals (PJE)

QA

• Progress: Tested m4 and approved, followed up on blocker bugs and fixes. CSV data loading script checked in (Olivier)
• Plans: More milestone testing, CPIA script enhancement review, more perf and robustness testing

Cosmo/Scooby

• Progress: Support for CalDAV begun with MKCALENDAR, Brendan’s Scooby mockup in SVN
• Plans: Continue work on parsing iCalendar.
• Personnel: Mat Eernisse to start Jul 25

Build

• Progress: Released milestone 4 (0.5.04), many wxPython upgrades, SVN & Bonsai integration
• Plans: libXML2 upgrade, instrumentation framework design, bug work

Community

• Plans: OSCon Aug 1-5 and planning for Aug CSG meeting

IT

• Progress: Server survey underway. High number of tickets closed.
• Plans: Finish Cosmo demo server project and IT application development infrastructure work (SVN, development environments)

Highlights

• Chandler milestone 4 is planned for this week — three critical bugs are pushing that to be one day late. QA bug numbers
• Cosmo 0.2-2 milestone released today with support for tickets
• OSAF Wiki content reorg mostly complete

Design

• Progress: Sharing and sidebar task scoping. 0.6 virtuality presentation and documentation.
• Plans: OSAF presentation Thursday. Test milestone and put together report card.

Application

• Progress: Many wxWidgets improvements, particularly Mac toolbar. Fixes in sidebar, calendar display, all day events, conflicting events, minical, drag and drop.
• Plans: CPIA Script IRC chat Jul 13

Dev Platform and Repository

• Progress: Index support for sets, Item collection initial work roughed in but not yet hooked up. Headless repository support. PyICU and schema work (versioning, handling mismatches).
• Plans: Full-text indexing for all attributes, more detailed plan for addressing,
• Personnel: Andi working remotely. PJE taking a few days off.

Services WG

• Progress: Big sharing checkin. Timezone and zanshin spec updates.
• Plans: Ticket support in zanshin. Item collection change integration. Alarm filtering in sharing
• Personnel: Lisa OOF (vacation and conf) Jul 20 to Aug 5.

QA

• Progress: Bug triage for milestone 5
• Plans: Performance testing, smoke test milestone 5.
• Personnel: Olivier Giroussens started internship last week (Welcome Olivier)

Build

• Progress: Support for wiki content reorg. Setup Tinderbox client for performance testing.
• Plans: upgrade libxml2, convert Bonsai to SVN.

Cosmo, Scooby

• Progress: Release of 0.2-2 with ticket support.
• Plans: CalDAV support. Write up implementation details of tickets.
• Personnel: Mat Eernisse, Web developer, start date Jul 25.

IT

• Progress: Worked with LPFI on hosting options.
• Plans: Cosmo demo server.

I’ve released the 0.2-2 milestone of Cosmo, which includes support for WebDAV tickets. Download it here.

For more information about Cosmo 0.2, see the project page.

OSAF is looking for a creative Web-savvy designer to contribute a consistent, professional look-and-feel and usable interactions to a WebUI for calendar access and sharing. The role necessarily involves graphic design and HTML/CSS implementation, but also includes scope for growth into product planning and/or project management.

You can see details for this and other positions we have open on our OSAF Employment page.

OSAF, a unique organization dedicated to the creation and widespread adoption of open source application software, is looking for a creative Web-savvy designer to contribute a consistent, professional look-and-feel and usable interactions to a WebUI for calendar access and sharing. The role necessarily involves graphic design and HTML/CSS implementation, but also includes scope for growth into product planning and/or project management.

You can see details for this and other positions we have open on our OSAF Employment page.

To allow the Performance Tests to run without impacting the cycle time for existing Tinderbox clients we have set up a dedicated computer running Linux and Gnome.

The client name is mikala-linux

Along with the Performance Tests, this client will also run the GUI Unit Tests.

You can see the status of this Tinderbox client on the Chandler status page: http://builds.osafoundation.org/tinderbox/Chandler/status.html .

Python 2.4 introduced a set type. The repository data model was enhanced to support attributes of cardinality ’set’ or values of type ‘//Schema/Core/Set’.

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Until recently, date and time value support was implemented in the data model with the help of Egenix’ mx extensions library. With the Python 2.3 release, new types for date and time values were introduced. The repository now makes use of them.

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I’ve updated the Cosmo 0.2 release plan to more accurately reflect our current development priorities and to target a couple more milestones before the final 0.2 release.

We’re just about halfway done overall with 0.2, though most of the feature work should be completed in the next few weeks. The early part of August will be dedicated to testing and documentation. Hopefully the milestone releases will satisfy you client developers until then