[Cosmo-dev] [Sum] Sep 23-30

[Ted Leung]

Here's the summary of the last week's activity on cosmo-dev...

New threads:
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Cosmo UI refactorings:  Matthew Eernisse has moved canvas rendering  
and event-conflict code into separate modules
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001594.html>

Ted Leung sent a summary of the current state of planning, including  
the Cosmo sticky plan (roadmap), the intent to move to shorter  
release cycles for Cosmo, and adjustments to the Cosmo 0.5 and 0.6  
releases to reflect that intent.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001595.html>

The discussion resulting from Ted's post (above) created a new thread  
about release terminology, with the following results
- Every week on Mondays, Bear will build a "checkpoint" of the  
current contents of SVN -- this checkpoint will be tested by QA  
(functional and Selenium tests), and a bug summary posted to cosmo- 
dev.   We will not respin checkpoints to fix bugs
- We will refer to "numbered releases", like Cosmo 0.5 and Cosmo 0.6  
as "releases" -  When we are going to issue a release, we will go  
through the proces of creating release candidates, testing them,  
fixing bugs, issuing a new release candidate, and so on until we can  
agree that the release is done.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001624.html>

Jared Rhine asked for help in configuring Cosmo to use MySQL
- Randy Letness provided the info
- Brian Moseley opened bug 6800 to improve MySQL support in Snarf  
(the server bundle)
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001598.html>

Mikeal Rogers posted a proposal for a continuous testing system to  
allow for much longer running tests.
- Heikki Toivonen questioned the value of longer running tests
- Ted Leung replied that longer running tests were necessary to  
expose bugs that existing tests fail to catch
- Brian Moseley was in favor of such a system as long as "build  
breakage is reported quickly and functional test breakage results in  
logged bugs"
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001600.html>

Mikeal Rogers asked people to look at their bug lists for Cosmo 0.5  
and propose bugs that should be moved to Cosmo 0.6
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001604.html>

Brian Moseley committed some changes to Cosmo's MKCALENDAR handling  
for the case where the client provides an invalid or non-parseable  
timezone
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001606.html>

Brian Moseley reported that all Cosmo functional tests are now  
passing on the hibernate based version of Cosmo 0.5.  The remaining  
work for 0.5 is Bobby Rullo and Matthew Eernisse work on recurrence/ 
managing events.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001607.html>

Mikeal Rogers posted instructions on how to use bugzilla's 'watch'  
feature to track a person's bug activity
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001626.html>

Travis Vachon posted a patch to implement terser HTTP logging via a  
servlet filter.   The discussion that he hoped for has not yet  
materialized.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001627.html>

Ted Leung emphasized an item from the Cosmo meeting, asking  
developers to check in unit tests for bug fixes.  He also asked about  
the use of review-then-commit (RTC) when close to a release.
- Bryan Moseley preferred to see people really adopt commit-then- 
review (CTR)
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001638.html>

Bear (Mike Taylor) posted a sample checkpoint build to generate  
discussion about arifact naming.   No discussion yet.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001643.html>

Bobby Rullo and Travis Vachon engaged in bit of mutual celebration  
after Travis moved the login pages to a JSP custom tag
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001644.html>

Lisa Dusseault posted a summary of interesting/relevant activities at  
the IETF
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001647.html>

Travis Vachon posted a proposal for how to (re)organize the Cosmo URL  
space.  This is in response to a desire to stabilize that space for  
the hosted service.   No such changes will be made until Cosmo 0.6
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001648.html>


Meetings and Announcements:
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Randy Letness, the author of the Hibernate layer for Cosmo has joined  
OSAF as an employee
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001616.html>

Ted Leung posted the agenda and meeting notes for the Cosmo  
Engineering Meeting on Sept 28, 2006
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001637.html>