Apps meeting Tuesday November 29th 2005

Agenda

• Question du Jour
• 0.6 End Game
• Specs and 0.7
• People

Summary

• Plan : Focus on blocking bugs when they arise, doc writing
• Progress : We reached Code Freeze, now starting 0.6 End Game
• Problems : Need to start the debate and thinking on 0.7, Sheila to kick that off on the Design list this week

Actions

• All : participate to the on going 0.7 Planning conversation on the Design list, check out and think about the stickies
• Philippe : create a Wiki page for Geek Talk subject (report from last week)
• Sheila : organize design session on table rework (report from last week)

Minutes

Question du Jour

What's the most important thing you're taking out of Producing OSS (Fogel)?

• Bryan : Open Process is a bit hard to trust at first, it's interesting to see that it does work
• David : Consensual processing makes sense, Money chapter interesting, chapter on commiters was interesting to read before becoming one on wx
• Katie : Immensely useful on how to manage an Open Source project
• Philippe : Lots of hints on what we could do better (Wiki, web presence, open discussion)

That was not a great Question du Jour since lots of people didn't read the book yet. My bad... I hope it will tickle the curiosity of the rest of the team though. It's really a great read.

0.6 End Game

The bug trend is now showing 0. I won't update that for 0.6 again... Look at the blocking list and remaining 0.6 bugs list.

Doc : Making progress, please do ask for help if you're stuck. Also ask for review when done or close to.

Blockers : The Bug Council meets almost everyday and we currently find one blocker a day (on average). They have a high prio of course.

Specs and 0.7

Philippe and Katie presented the strawperson proposal for resource allocation (from the stickie board)

"Tenets" are just main ideas, no priorities yet. Reactions :

• Alec : too many tenets, some are competing against each other
• John : if we do calendar too much, we're going to be stuck there
• Bryan : plausible dashboard seems great but unclear what "plausible" means. IOW, what's the expectation?
• Sheila : we need to have a conversation on the table rework

People

Donn will be working almost exclusively on his new venture but we'll stay in touch.

Reid to join us starting next week. Will be in SF for 2 weeks then working remotely.

We have a QA intern: Dan Steinicke.

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Status

Philippe

• Tracked 0.6 blocking bugs and 0.6 closing issues
• Bug Council duties
• Check in About Box (4185, 4682) and Welcome note (4168) bugs
• Fixed 3438 and 4251 : experiment with sizes and colors for the markup toolbar icons to mitigate Mac issues
• Recruiting duties

John

• Finished testing integration of RangeSet in repository with selection, which turned out to be a pretty risky change. Checked it in to fix bug #3097: wxTable synchronize widget doesn't properly update selection and all bugs marked as duplicates, except #4290 and 3408.
• Fixed remaining blocking bugs (but still waiting for reviews):
  • #4229: importing a calendar doesn't automatically select it in the sidebar.
  • #4305: Creating a new collection should auto-select that collect in the sidebar in edit mode.
  • #4004: Cannot edit a collection name when the scrollbar is displayed
• If the dust clears on 0.6 by 12 December, I'm thinking of spend 12 December through 31 December in Utah. Besides a week of vacation, I'll be working remotely.

David

• committed (to wx) a number of Chandler-specific wx changes
• resolved various new wx problems within the wx community
• worked with Andi to resolve some new build issues
• committed a bunch of wx v2.7 changes back to Chandler
  • still working with bear on one nasty remaining build issue

Jed

• Your status here...

Alec

• Your status here...

Bryan

• Your status here...

Donn

• Your status here...