Apps meeting 27 July 2005

Agenda

• Specs
• Schedule
• Engineering Issues
• People
• Other

Summary

• Plan : Lots of people at OSCon next week. Make progress on new features planned for m5.
• Progress : Completed assessment of the whole 0.6 workload left to do. Identified a 3 weeks m6 milestone.
• Problems : The overall date for 0.6 has been pushed 3 weeks away (add m6). Risk is the amount of new features coming together in the m5 timeframe.

Actions

• Buy 3 copies of the wxWidgets books

Minutes

Specs

Specs seems to be stable now so there's little activities there now. Sheila and me independently did a review of the tasks and added new records when we saw something missing. Still, we may have missed things, so log tasks if there's something you plan to do which is missing.

Schedule

We did a lot of work on the m5 schedule, did review the work load with almost everybody (at least one pass with each dev) and the results are in:

Dev	# bugs	# tasks	SWAGged days	Vacation/OSCon days	# unSWAGged bugs
David	27	4	33	5	20
John	15	7	35	5	1
Bryan	2	5	25	5
Alec	10	6	29	6
Jed	7	8	29	5	4
Donn	17	1	26		1
Total	78	31	177	-	26

Summary:

• We have more tasks per people that time around (compared to m4), this makes the scheduling riskier.
• We are at roughly 30 days per devs + 5 days of vacation / conference.
• This pushes us to September 9th at best.
• This is a 3 weeks slip compared to the original plan.
• The reasons for the slip are: 1 week m4 delay, 1 week of punted stuff from m3/m4, 1 week of extra new or better SWAGed tasks.

We discussed this situation this morning with Katie and Sheila and here's what we're proposing:

• Maintain m5: 8/24

• Add a 3 weeks m6 milestone to the 0.6 schedule: 09/14

The current trends (see graph on the Apps page) seems to show that this is a workable plan.

Good: we are not accumulating a big backlog of bugs while adding features so the bug fixing period should not explode.

Risk: we're adding lots of new features (tasks) in this milestone.

Engineering Issues

• CPIA Script : Had code review this afternoon. We'll soon be able to run basic smokes from Chandler easily. Neat!
• Security : We need to think about that, especially with CPIA Script in the equation. See Heikki's e-mail.
• Frameworks Study : See my doc on frameworks. This doc is evolving but feel free to send me your thoughts and comments.
• Backup System : Jared working on backups for servers. Please get in touch with him if you've ideas / concerns.
• wxWidgets books : Let's buy some of those wxWidgets books for the team!

People

Lots of us will be at OSCon next week. No Apps meeting but I'll post a weekly page so that we can all post our weekly status. Jed, John, Bryan and Philippe will report on their OSCon experience in 2 weeks.

Other

• Update your weekly status. Please...
• Please, participate to IRC QA Bash Office hour tomorrow hosted by Aparna.

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Status

Philippe

• Wrote the m4 closing status report
• Reviewed the complete 250 remaining open bugs and tasks on 0.6
• Load balanced the work load for the team
• Worked on improved bug reporting stats

John

• Spend a long time building and setting up a new FC4 system.
• I got Chandler to build, but it doesn't run due to a missing c++ shared library
• Merged CVS head wxGrid changed into our wxWidgets
• Fix bug #3397: The names of the collections associated with "All' need to be changed
• Triaged more than 20 new bugs
• Spent the remainder of the week working on the new sets integration:
  • Add ItemCollection attributes to Collection
  • add missing kindInfo to Collection classes
  • removed __init__'s that contain optional arguments that make them incompatible with the parcel loader
  • add missing copying clouds to Collection classes
  • add missing imports for Collection classes to __init__.py
  • rename ItemCollections to Collections
  • convert Sidebar ItemCollections to Collections
  • apply andi's fix for a repository bug I ran into

Jed

• Migrated wx changes to new tree.
• Fixed minical selection bugs 3352 and 3536.
• Fixed drawing bug 3514.
• Fixed font size bug 3519.
• Discussed minical preview issues with Brendan
• Read up on Timezone documentation.

David

• fixed 1-2 bugs; helped others with wx-flavored bugs and problems
• checked in more wxPython v2.6.2 support
• more wxMac CoreGraphics work
  • collaborated with Arel
  • implemented first working version of CGPattern stroke/fill support
  • checked in new (latent) version
  • identified and partially fixed problems with line dash support
  • sent updated code, status and notes off to Stefan C.
• updated wx project docs
• improved wxMSW double-buffering patch according to wx guidelines
• worked with Mike to rename "wxPython-2.5" dir

Arel

• worked on wxMac CoreGraphics support issues
• specifically, located and solved wx brush and pen stroke deficiencies when painting shapes (i.e., calendar items, that were painted black when running core graphics. (bug: 3048)
• debugging other wx issues starting with building test samples using xcode.
• some calendar refactoring

Alec

• Your status here...

Brendan

• added the preview area
• working on arrow bitmap for the all-day size toggle
• today did a bug count survey in trying to compare xul vs. wx
• fun minor fixes to the javascript mockup thing. see xmlhttprequest running on a server: http://piece.stanford.edu:1999 (since my osaf machine appears to be firewalled enough so it cant web serve)
• reckless commit behavior resulted in 3 backouts (gotta be a record!)
• autologging module

Bryan

• Working on more 0.5.05 bugs while waiting for feedback on recurrence UI

Donn

Worked primarily on CPIA Script, and getting it to be Python-based.

• fixed bugs 3134, 3451