OSAF Weekly Status 24 March 2006

This report covers the period from Mar 17-Mar 24 2006 (one week).

Highlights

• Chandler
  • DetailedAlpha2Plan
  • First pass at background syncing, available via "Test | Sharing | Enable background syncing"
• Cosmo
  • Cosmo 0.2.8 was released and announced. It is available for download now.
• Scooby
  • Lots of work on the 0.2 release planning. We have rough estimates for each feature. As a team, we're digging to the next level of detail to determine more detailed scope and recommendations for in/out for 0.2.

Design and PM (Sheila)

Progress:

• Finished all Chandler alpha2 specs.
• Finished and presented Chandler alpha 2 plan.
• Launched strategy discussions and planning.
• Scooby 0.2 planning continues.

Plans:

• Scooby 0.2, feature finalization.
• More 1.0 strategy planning.
• Chandler 0.7 performance targets and prep for alpha 3 planning.

Application WG (Philippe)

• Progress
  • 0.7alpha2 moving forward
  • Progress on all main features
  • Email notification of events demoed this morning at the Staff meeting
• Plan
  • Continue to monitor 0.7alpha2 tasks and bugs count
  • More progress on current 0.7alpha2 tasks

More details available in AppsMeeting20060323

Platform WG (Katie)

• Progress:
  • First pass at background syncing
  • Bear and PJE hashed out a rough plan for integrating egg parcels w/build and test systems
  • Added tests for egg parcel loader, setuptools improvements, hello world plugin
• Plans:
  • More work on background sync, eggs
  • Commit timezone changes (smart-naive timezones)
  • Focus on finishing alpha2 work

QA, Build and Release (Heikki/Aparna)

• Progress:
  • Installed cosmo 0.2.8 on qacosmo and ran compatibility tests against current code of chandler
  • Ran tests against the checkpoint build and filed bugs
  • Scooby 0.1 testing in progress
  • Cosmo 0.3 test plan in progress
  • Fixed bugs in the CATS framework to enhance reporting
  • Triaged the regressions assigned to 0.7 release and assigned them to the alphas.

• Plans:
  • Complete Scooby 0.1 testing
  • Run compatibilty tests against Cosmo 0.3
  • Identify new features going into Chandler and work with dev to add functional tests for those.

Cosmo and Scooby (John)

Progress:

• Cosmo
  • Cosmo 0.2.8 was released and announced. It is available for download now.
  • Refactoring of Jackrabbit node usage is now done. We plan to start testing this next week.
  • Brian Kirsh continues to fix defects for Cosmo 0.3
  • Brian Mosley refactored the test directories for Cosmo into Functional and unit tests.
• Scooby
  • Scooby 0.1 is basically done. We're working on the documentation and landing pages at this point.
  • Lots of work on the 0.2 release planning. We have rough estimates for each feature. As a team, we're digging to the next level of detail to determine more detailed scope and recommendations for in/out for 0.2.
  • Scooby 0.1 branch created. The source tree is now open for 0.2!

Plans:

• Cosmo
  • Continue to work towards closing out 0.3 release. (Migration tool, bug fixes)
  • Work with FoxMarks^? to test our jackrabbit changes for 0.3.
  • Get all potential future features into Bugzilla.
• Scooby
  • Continue to work on Scooby 0.2 planning. Goal: Get rough outline of plan for 0.2 done and out to the list this week.
  • Get a number of Scooby related design discussions up and running on the design list. (We need to get clarity on a number of issues for 0.2 release)
  • Push 0.1 bug fixes into 0.2 source tree.

IT (Jared)

Progress:

Plans:

Community (Pieter/Ted)

Progress:

• IRC office hour discussion on effective approaches to building and maintaining FAQs.

Plans:

• Lock down details for the Core Sprint week, and May WAC meetings
• Developemnt work on draft landing page sites for Cosmo and Scooby.