[Dev] OSAF Status Overview, July 26

[Sheila Mooney]

Highlights

     * Based on some further analysis of the remaining 0.6 tasks for  
the apps team, we have decided that we need to have an additional  
milestone M6 in 0.6. M5 will be as planned on Aug 24th and M6 will be  
on Sept 14th (3 weeks later). The release date will be adjusted  
accordingly to Nov 2nd 2005.

Design

     * Progress: Mimi presented virtuality vision to osaf last week.  
Will work on follow-up paper and thinking about big issues for 0.7  
and logging 0.6 bugs. Sheila helped with estimates for remaining 0.6  
work and coordinating recurrence/timezone tasks.
     * Plans: Final review of sharing spec, checking tasks and bugs  
for M5, 0.7 planning, CSG re-calibration mtg planning and OSCON demo.
     * Sheila at OSCON Aug 3-5

Applications

     * Progress: Proceeding on M5 work. All 0.6 tasks logged in  
bugzilla and swagged.
     * Plans: Completed assignment of whole 0.6 workload left and  
identified necessary 3 week M6. Continue with M5 tasks.
     * Philippe, Bryan, Jed and John are at OSCON next week.

Sets/Collections

    * Progress: Integration work started and in progress.
    * Plan: John, continuing with integration and addressing issues  
with support from Ted and Andi.

i18n

    * Progress: added Text (an alias for UString, LocalizableString),  
added new repository types for schema api. Updated specs and reviewed  
i18n tasks with apps team.
    * Plan: Refine gettext API proposal to allow dynamic registration  
of localization files, Begin working on i18n Repository additions,  
meet with QA to design test.

Sharing/Webdav

    * Progress: Fixed a bunch of sharing bugs. zanshin: Most of the  
way through implementing detection of CalDAV support, the MKCALENDAR  
method, and correctly retrieving the CalDAV calendar resource type.  
Detailed spec review.
    * Plan: Continue Zanshin CALDAV work, publish individual ics  
files, support unpublish and unsubscribe, work on sharing dialogs.

Security:

    * Progress: Set date for ACL presentation
    * Plan: Investigate the differences between the different ACL  
systems we will be using, review zanzhin plans and API to figure out  
what makes sense regarding higher level ACL API.

Recurrence/iCalendar/Timezone

    * Progress: Implemented saving and retrieving default timezone,  
first cut at tz popup in calendar. Added support for handling this  
and future events.
    * Plan: Proxy work for editing recurrence, handle import of  
calendar with recurrence, some beginnings of gui work for recurrence/tz.

Dev Platform

    * Progress: more work on Flickr parcel, ported del.icio.us parcel  
to schema API, more parcel loader work (implemented experimental  
alternative, analyzed perf), moved parcel and parcel.manager out of  
chandler.pack. Implemented draft startup and thread extension points.
    * Plan: look at implementing other extension points in terms of  
Startup and Thread, experiment with translating current parcel.xml  
files to Python, add progress callbacks to the "Startup" extension,  
to support displaying startup status in the progress bar

Other Projects:

    * released PyLucene 1.0

QA

     * Progress: Testing this week's checkpoint, continue with idle  
chandler memory tests, code review CPIA script and working on next  
set of enhancements necessary to use CPIA script for regression testing.
     * Plans: Add utility methods and test cases to CPIA script,  
develop test plan for i18n, usual review and triage of tasks and bugs.

Cosmo/Scooby

    * Progress: Added support for MKCALENDAR.
    * Plans: Mat's started July 25th and will coming up to speed with  
chandler and cosmo and beginning a research project on ajax and other  
advanced javascript techniques and technologies. On the Cosmo front,  
continuing to add CALDAV support and working on GETing and PUTing  
icalendar events.
    * Brian M at OSCON next week.

Community

     * Plans: OSCon Aug 1-5 and planning for Aug CSG meeting

IT

     * Progress: 30 tickets closed this week. Office network perf  
plan approved, backup status evaluated.
     * Plans: begin network perf and backups updates. Implement cosmo  
demo server (pilikia replacement).