OSAF Weekly Status 07 April 2006

This report covers the period from Apr 1-Apr 7 2006 (one week).

Highlights

• Chandler
  • PyLucene,PyICU no longer use SWIG
  • Free/Busy, Scheduling are code complete for 0.7alpha2
• Cosmo
  • Working on closing out 0.3 release. We have a small number of bugs to fix and the migration tool to finish.
• Scooby
  • Work on some of the Scooby 0.2 features is already started.
  • Scooby 0.2 officially kicks off on 4/11/06.
• Community/IT
  • Wiki updated to new code base.
  • More development work on the Scooby and Cosmo landing page sites in preparation for the Scooby 0.1 and Cosmo 0.3 bundle launch.

Design and PM (Sheila)

Progress:

Plans:

Application WG (Philippe)

Summary

• Progress
  • Some features are code complete for 0.7alpha2
    • Free / Busy
    • Scheduling
  • Progress on all main features for 0.7alpha2
    • Toolbar and multistate button
    • Dashboard
• Plan
  • The bugs failing functional tests in full build (and therefore wx tarball to roll out) seems to have a solution: expect a bunch of stuff that was blocked to show up next week.
  • wxColumnHeader integration (now that the functional test break is fixed)
  • Markup toolbar (now that multistate button is in)
  • Continue to monitor 0.7alpha2 tasks and bugs count
  • Need to make progress resolving the Build Policies issues (meeting this afternoon, Philippe driving)

More details available in AppsMeeting20060406

Platform WG (Katie)

• Progress
  • fixes for sharing and accounts tests
  • background sync improvements
  • Released setuptools 0.6a11, w/more new docs and many features/fixes
  • More Python 2.5 work: enhanced garbage collection for generators, PEP 343 bug fixes, etc.
  • Bug fixes for recurrence, reminders, alarms, timezones
  • Bug:5209 (Use new smart-naive datetime for all new events)
  • PyICU^? no longer uses SWIG
• Plans
  • domain model bugs (Bug:3531, Bug:1745)
  • calendar service and interop bugs
  • dump/reload requirements and proposal
  • egg i18n proposal
  • stabilize setuptools to 0.6b1 for inclusion in Python 2.5 alpha 2

More details available in PlatformMtg20060404

QA, Build and Release (Heikki/Aparna)

• Progress:
  • checkpoint build testing
  • bug verification
  • automated cosmo 0.3 test development
  • chandler 0.7 functional spec review

• Plans:
  • chandler 0.7 testplan development
  • additional cosmo 0.3 test development and documentation
  • revamping QA page to reflect status of all the 3 projects, chandler, cosmo and scooby
  • new checkpoint build testing and assistance in debugging functional test failures related to wx39 tarball.

Cosmo and Scooby (John)

Progress:

• Cosmo
  • Working on closing out 0.3 release. We have a small number of bugs to fix and the migration tool to finish.
  • Work continues on our testing infrastructure.
  • Started thinking for next release.
• Scooby
  • Scooby 0.2 planning: We have a rough cut at a schedule for the team.
  • We have a list of issues that we plan to push out the the Scooby mailing list this week for discussion. (Priscilla is coordinating this)
  • Work on some of the Scooby 0.2 features is already started.
  • Scooby 0.2 officially kicks off on 4/11/06.

Plans:

• Cosmo
  • Get migration tool done this week.
  • Fix remaining bugs for 0.3
  • Get 0.3 release candidate into QAs hands this week.
  • Brainstorm in server meeting on 0.4 plan.
• Scooby
  • Finalize the Scooby 0.2 plan.
  • Start discussing the design and architecture of Scooby for 0.2
  • Write up specs for 0.2.
  • Kick off development for 0.2
  • Get discussions going on the mailing list for Scooby 0.2 features that need more discussion.

IT (Jared)

Progress:

• Wiki updated to new code base.
• Closed office bandwidth improvement project.
• Closed outbound port 25 to control spam.
• Desktop backups project proceeding; off-site rsync copies tested.
• VPN project proceeding; final configuration of private cert authority.

Plans:

• Close outstanding wiki migration issues.
• Ongoing physical security updates.

Community (Pieter/Ted)

Progress:

• More development work on the Scooby and Cosmo landing page sites in preparation for the Scooby 0.1 and Cosmo 0.3 bundle launch.

Plans:

• Testing of the demo of Scooby process and tweak any UI needs like adding Level-Of-Service statements at appropriate places.