Archive for November, 2005

OSAF Status Overview, Nov 16

November 16th, 2005 at 7:17 pm (2 years, 5 months ago) by Lisa Dusseault under Chandler Desktop Development, Chandler Server Development

Highlights

  • Chandler milestone 0.5.m7 released. Bug trending towards 0.6 release.
  • Cosmo 0.2.3 released (bug and perf fix).

Design

  • Progress: Lots of public design discussions and continued work on Nutshell documentation. Scooby design meeting.
  • Personnel: Mimi on vacation soon.

Applications

  • Progress : Very good bug trend, 21 blocking bugs remaining
  • Plan : Focus on blocking bugs, get to zero before ThanksGiving
  • Problems : Documentation tasks haven’t really started. We may have to hold the release (2 weeks after branching) if necessary

Services and Dev Platform

  • Progress: As usual: bug fixes and performance work
  • Plans: Start to tail off performance work with more of an eye to stability. Start documentation writing.

Build and QA

  • Progress: Tested milestone 0.5.m7 build on Mac and Linux. Collaborative QA session on IRC for verifying resolved bugs. CATS code review. Daily bug councils.
  • Plans: Review non-code release items. Hiring progress.
  • Personnel: QA intern Dan Steinicke starts on 11/28

Cosmo and Scooby

  • Progress: Cosmo 0.2.3 bug-fix release. CalDAV REPORT implementation progress in 0.3 trunk. Scooby spec writing and work on asynchronous events.
  • Plans: Cosmo scalability test writing. Scooby: new design element coding (sidebar, new detail view, tickets UI)

IT

  • Progress: Server backup enhancements project complete. Demo broadcast project complete. Silk machine for QA project complete.
  • Plans: Continue hiring IT person. Finish VPN plan. KEI time tracking tool work.

Community

  • Plans: ApacheCon Dec 11-14: presentation on Cosmo to prepare. Next CSG/WAC meeting first week in January.

Cosmo 0.2.3 released

November 16th, 2005 at 11:56 am (2 years, 5 months ago) by Brian Moseley under Chandler Server Development

Cosmo 0.2.3 is ready for download.

0.2.3 is a bugfix release focusing on stability and scalability. The most notable change is the usage of Apache Derby (http://db.apache.org/derby/) for repository storage.

Find download instructions, documentation, and the list of resolved issues at the Cosmo home page at http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/CosmoHome. See RELEASE-NOTES.txt in the distribution for upgrade notes.


Cosmo 0.2.2 released

November 8th, 2005 at 6:31 pm (2 years, 6 months ago) by Brian Moseley under Chandler Server Development

Cosmo 0.2.2 is ready for download.

0.2.2 is a bugfix release focusing on stability and scalability.

Find download instructions, documentation, and the list of resolved issues at the Cosmo home page at http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/CosmoHome. See RELEASE-NOTES.txt in the distribution for upgrade notes.


OSAF Status Overview, Nov 1, 2005

November 2nd, 2005 at 9:29 am (2 years, 6 months ago) by Lisa Dusseault under Chandler Desktop Development, Chandler Server Development

Highlights

  • Chandler: 202 bugs targetted for 0.6. 10 P1 bugs, 38 P2 bugs.
  • Cosmo: 0.2.2 bug fix release in the works — fixes to make dogfooding work.

Applications

  • Progress : Bug trend encouraging. Total Apps (P1+P2+P3) under the 100 bar for the first time!
  • Plan : Bugs, bugs, bugs…
  • Problems : Process perceived as too heavy in some cases. We clarified the “wiggle room” cases.

Services and Dev Platform

  • Progress: Bug fixes and PyCon proposals
  • Plans: More bug fixes and review recurrence test cases.
  • Personnel: Lisa at IETF next week.

QA and Build

  • Progress: Functional tests against the checkpoint (10/31) build. IRC bug verification session.
  • Plans: Review last-minute design changes in 0.6 and triage P3 bugs.
  • Personnel: Interviewing candidates.

Cosmo and Scooby

  • Progress: Week-to-week navigation in Scooby calendar view. Some timezone and build work.
  • Plans: Solve timezone and build problems in Scooby. Do a 0.2.2 release of Cosmo (a second bug-fix release of 0.2) to solve problems for FoxMarks and cosmo demo server.

IT

  • Progress: Halua (cosmo-demo) suddenly unstable; top priority to fix. Now stabilized. Remote management installed at colo; big improvement in manageability. Office bandwidth shaping test servers OS installed.
  • Plans: Memory for lots of QA machines. Backups rotation system. Desktop/laptop backups proposal. Office bandwidth shaping prototype stalled while contractor unavailable.
  • Personnel: Open positions for KEI sysadmin and OSAF IT intern.

Community

  • Progress: Plan to refactor main Web site (move many pages to Wiki)
  • Plans: Will host CalConnect HTTP+ Auth meeting in January. Chandler 0.6 release landing page work. IRC office hour this week: QA bug verification.