[Chandler-dev] [Sum] March 11 - 19

[Katie Capps Parlante]

The first weekly summary of the chandler-dev list...

Build and release
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Bear made a big change to full builds, to support setuptools and solve
some issues with automated tests.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005468.html>

Heikki noted that patch reviews have been streamlined in bugzilla.

Morgen requested that bugzilla 'attach' reply message attachments.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005448.html>

Heikki asked people to hold off on checkins while functional test
problems got worked out. (The tree is now open again).
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005529.html>

Aparna posted checkpoint build status:
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005525.html>

Miscellaneous
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Bear gave links for a new python module supporting recurring events:
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005508.html>

Alec pointed us at a great diff tool:
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005508.html>

John Townsend started as the new dev manager for the Cosmo and Scooby
projects:
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005524.html>

Alec gave a good '60 second' overview of annotations:
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005522.html>

John and Dan gave some help to Charlie Zhu, who ran into a problem
starting Chandler:
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005517.html>

Open issues
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*Mac performance* The tail end of this conversation was about how big a
factor gcc plays in mac slowness -- several tests were mentioned that
compare gcc with other compilers on the various platforms. Other tests
were mentioned to look at wx and berkeleydb. Alec mentioned that the
Python to C++ layer was a bottleneck to drawing (wx), and that SWIG'ed
code might be slow. The thread contains pystone results from various
machines.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005387.html>

*Domain model* We discussed moving stamping bugs earlier in the schedule
and pushing out other bugs later in the schedule. Domain model plan:
<http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/DomainModelProject>
And high level view of milestone schedule here:
<http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/DeveloperPlatformProject>

*Sharing format* Morgen posted an updated proposal for the sharing format:
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005453.html>

*Apple iCal and cosmo-demo* Apple's most recent version of iCal doesn't
support HTTPS. Various workarounds to support it have significant
drawbacks, from hacky code to barriers to users. The very best solution
would be for Apple to change it back -- the next step is for Sheila to
look into how likely this is.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005484.html>

*Re-engineering stamping* Jeffrey wrote up a summary of his takeaways
from the stamping discussion, and that led to some back and forth about
stamping implementation and its relationship to the design.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005479.html>
Lisa explained why we chose an 'identity' model for stamping:
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005506.html>
Alec posted a list of questions the design needs to answer:
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005492.html>
Phillip posted about annotations and stamping:
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005509.html

*Free-busy* Jeffrey is going to move forward with free-busy decisions: 
"Publish my freebusy" will ask the user to choose a server, and create a 
collection (not displayed to the user) containing Mine - (items 
appearing in collections that are shared to the given server). A URL 
will be returned which a free/busy report will need to be run against.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-March/005487.html>

Notes from meetings
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Jed gave a talk on "Styles in Chandler", and will send out a proposal to
the list:
<http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/GeekTalk031306>

Apps meeting:
<http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AppsMeeting20060316>