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.

Highlights

• Chandler milestone 04 planned in 2 weeks depending on sidebar goals
• Decision: No new email support in rest of 0.6 plan (however email bugs will naturally be fixed in bug phases)
• Cosmo release 0.2 planned in six weeks or so to include time for more test coverage and documentation
• OSAF Wiki content reorg planned sometime in next week

Design

• Progress: Contributions to timezone, iCalendar and sharing specs. Prepared presentation on Chandler virtuality. Published performance h/w standards.
• Plans: Triage and dashboard design work. Virtuality presentation and handle feedback from that.

Application

• Progress: Checkin of calendar colors. Some wxMac work submitted to wxWidgets. CPIA Script already at point of being used by QA. Many small bug fixes.
• Plan: Philippe exploring wxWidgets risks and alternatives. Bryan to review another set of 0.6 bugs. Multi-calendar and recurrence work.
• Personnel: Donn vacation this week.

Dev Platform and Repository

• Progress: Big schema API and parcel loading changes. Set API prototype.
• Plans: Implement pull style notification. Work on sidebar integration with Item Collection.
• Personnel: Andi at Europython this week

Services

• Progress: I18n plan accepted and broken down into tasks. Recurrence spec final review called. Timezone spec now in detailed dev planning. Zanshin spec updated & published. Test WebDAV server for Zanshin checked in.
• Plans: Implement i18n and recurrence features. Coordinate timezone-related API issues with Item Collection.

QA (checkpoint build, other status)

• Progress: Tested 20050627 milestone, found 14 new bugs. Regressions outstanding: 5. Number of bugs open to be fixed in 0.6: 397 (down from 399 last week). Updated Silk tests for changes in detail view. Updated calendar test cases.
• Plans: continued performance testing and GUI test automation work.

Build

• Progress: Cosmo maven work. Created mail lists for new svn repositories. Tested Fedora Core.
• Plans: Finish libxml upgrade. Write and test Wiki rename script. Performance Tinderbox setup.

IT

• Progress: Recovered from machine-killing power failures at hosting facility. FC4 added to linuxdev1. Bandwidth behavior analyzed. Set up new interns. Closing about 15 tickets and 2 projects a week.
• Plans: New box for performance tinderbox. Backup procedures review. Web stats for lots of domains. VPN research.

OSAF has four interns on board this summer, and three of them are here already. Here’s a bit of information about each. In the order they started:

Anthony De Franco is working with Aparna Kadakia on QA, including performance tests, regression and automated integration tests. He’s also writing a parcel to view and browse bugs from a Bugzilla database through the Chandler interface. We hooked up with Anthony through LPFI’s IDEAL scholar program. When not at OSAF, Anthony is at UC Berkeley doing Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In his spare time he plays badminton.

Arel Cordero is working with David Surovell on specialized wxWidgets objects. Also a UC Berkeley student, Arel has combined his major in music (he plays violin) with interests and study in security, GUI design (particularly as it relates to security), and AI. Also, check out the credits on this indy group’s album.

Brendan O’Connor is working with Alec Flett on Chandler’s calendar GUI. For the past two years he’s been a Stanford student and working on an open source research project called Deme. Next year he begins the Master’s program in Symbolic Systems , with a focus in cognitive and social science.

Olivier Giroussens hasn’t arrived yet, but when he does in early July, he’ll be working on QA. Olivier studies in France at the Institut National des Télécommunications and previously did a M.S. in Computer Science at the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis. Practicing a different ball/net sport from Anthony, Olivier does a lot of volleyball.

In order to handle the Scooby and Cosmo projects, as well as a more natural home for some Chandler-related projects, I’ve been gathering input on how to organize our Wiki content, and made a proposal.

Comments can be added to the proposal Wiki page itself.

Design

• Progress: Sidebar focus issues discussed (fodder for some spec). Sharing and recurrence specs ready for final review.
• Plans: Do visual design review of recent build. Spec reviews planned for timezones.

Applications

• Progress: Reviewed 04 work to make sure schedule still accurate. Drag and Drop framework proposal. CPIA Script proposal.
• Plans: Continue 04 milestone workload for July 13. Work on bug model.
• Personnel: Donn and Alec are back full-time. Brendan O’Connor (summer intern) started.

Repository and Dev Platform

• Progress: Blocks migration to new Schema API up for review. PyICU additions.
• Plans: Repository support for Sets — design and implementation.

Services

• Progress: Recurrence spec done. Timezone spec nearly done. Cert store and acceptance work checked in.
• Plans: Start recurrence and timezeone implementations. Check in sharing work. Final review of I18N spec.

QA

• Progress: Documenting run times for hardhat unit tests. Collaborative QA session on IRC. Tested Chandler sharing with Cosmo+SSL. Tested this week’s checkpoint, found eight bugs. 312 total bugs for 0.6.
• Plans: Large calendar import tests. Participate in visual design review. Work with Donn on CPIA Script.

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Build

• Progress: Set up linuxdev1 box, fixed some problems running full builds on FC4. Startup unit tests on Tinderbox.
• Plans: Upgrade libxml2. Test tinderbox/svn integration.

Cosmo

• Progress: Implemented MKTICKET and DELTICKET dav methods, defined jcr node type for tickets.
• Plans: Import custom namespaces and nodetypes into Jackrabbit for Cosmo distro, implement ticket authorization.

Community

• Progress: Finalized panel attendance for OSCon
• Plans: Preparing panel presentation for OSCon and other OSCon attendance details. Planning ahead for hosting CalConnect in September.

Highlights

• Chandler milestone 0.5.04 moved to July 13
• Dev work is progressing, with holes remaining in some specs as we get technical details filled in with information from developers.

Chandler bug highlights:

• 312 open 0.6 bugs, including 90 needing triage
• Bugs resolved in last 7 days: 22. New (and still open) bugs in last 7 days: 22.

Design Team

Progress: Finishing up on spec work for 0.6 and working through open issues.

Plans: Get involved in accessibility planning. Scheduling reviews for visual guidelines, timezone and sharing specs.

Applications

Progress: Many bug fixes in detail view, sidebar, wxImage, keyboard arrow key support

Personnel: Alec on paternity leave. Donn on vacation.

Services

Progress: iCalendar tests created. Heikki investigating query notification thread problem. Recurrence spec additions.

Plans: Produce Zanshin project documentation and specs and choose license. Start implementing recurrence.

Developer Platform and Repository

Progress: Schema API clouds support. More work on PyICU and getString. New Item Collection spec version published.

Plans: Repository support for sets. Migrating parcels to Schema API. Item Collection approaching review and implementation. I18n architecture planning nearing completion and public review.

Server (Cosmo and Scooby)

Progress: Reviewed Scooby plan with Mitch. Cosmo ticket support mostly working.

Plans: Publish revised scooby plan. Continue hiring effort.

QA

Progress: Updated smoke tests — now called Acceptance Tests. Tested 0.5.03 milestone. Installed Cosmo 0.2-1. Performance test plans completed and platforms chosen. Added silk tests.

Plans: IRC chat this week to get test participation. Reformat Kilauea and reinstall Tiger on it. Run performance use cases. Start writing a parcel (Anthony).

Build

Progress: Continued work on converting Bonsai to SVN.

Plans: work on P1 build bugs. Add startup unit tests.

IT:

Progress: Almost finished a big scrub through outstanding tickets — queue now at 52 tickets. A linux test machine made available to devs with Ubuntu.

Plans: Deal with priority tickets, including Palm and Tiger synch, request for spam management for mailman, demo server. Top projects (not tickets): Linux developer server to FC4, work on virtual server, security updates and VPN planning.

Community/Communications/Conferences:

Progress: Phone conf with Greg Jackson, discussed perceptions of progress as well as needs for mobile device support.

Plans: Pieter to follow up suggesting dates for getting CSG or WAC participants together to follow up in detail on mobile device support possibilities. Ted planning OSCon attendance.