[Cosmo-dev] 0.5 status

[Ted Leung]

Hi all,

I've been talking to people about estimates and dates and so forth,  
and it's hard to coordinate all that point to point, so we're going  
to experiment with doing it here.

So for 0.5 we have the following scheduled work and *very* rough  
estimates  (all bug numbers and descriptions are taken from <http:// 
wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/CosmoZeroPointFive>)

Brian:
    Hibernate.  After that he plans to play free safety and help  
Bobby out

Bobby:
    Anonymous access: bug 6179 - est 4days
    Managing recurring calendar events: bug 6180 - est 3-4 days
    Server part of Client timezone support: bug  6195 est 8 days
    Default Timezone, (depends on 6195): bug 6199 est 3 days

    Total time (taking high ends of ranges) = 19 days

Matthew
    Navigation: Jump To Date: bug 6182 - 3 days
    Navigation: Mail To Link: bug 6183 - 3 days
    Visual Tweaks: Display of Working Hours: bug 5123 - 1 day
    Visual Tweaks: Lozenge States: bug 6158, bug 5683 - 2 days - I  
know Matthew has additional status, because he's mostly done
    Refactoring: cal_main.js: bug 6228 - 2-11 days depending on how  
much we do.

    Total time (taking low ends of ranges) = 11 days

Travis
    Additional trace/debug logging - no estimate, but not on the  
critical path, and Travis is just coming up to speed on Cosmo

As you can see, the prediction for how many more days 0.5 will take  
can run to anywhere from 11 to 19 days:

11 days = Brian can help enough to cut Bobby's workload to the  
longest path (timezone), 11 days, which is the same length as  
Matthews work
19 days = The worst case where Bobby doesn't get any help from Brian.

If we end up taking more than 11 days, then I'd like to see Matthew  
get more time to do more refactoring in preparation for future  
release.   There's also the question of allocating some of Brian's  
time to validate the new Cosmo against Chandler just in case.

Note that this is the time till we can get a release that we can  
start testing.  I'm not making any predictions about how long testing  
and the other non-code deliverables take.  11 working days from today  
is September 26, 19 days is October 6.

Please let me know if I've gotten any information wrong, if there is  
important information missing, or if you have ideas on how to get us  
to a release in a shorter amount of time.

Ted