[Cosmo-dev] [Sum] Sep 1 - 22

[Ted Leung]

This summary is a bit terse, but I will endeavor to fill in  
additional details now that I am caught up.

New threads:
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Jared posted about a thread in chandler-dev on the problem of  
resyncing with Chandler clients after a Cosmo instance was restored  
from (not quite up to date) backups.  The main discussion happend on  
chandler-dev
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001436.html

Lots of discussion on the progress of integrating the Hibernate  
prototype into Cosmo.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001476.html

Lots of discussion regarding the performance of the Hibernate based  
version of Cosmo, including test tools, methodologies, and tables of  
results.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001440.html
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001483.html
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001526.html

Brian Moseley posted a link to the Open Search initiative
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001455.html

Ciny Joy asked some questions about Cosmo future plans, especially  
scheduling and server-side alarms
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001457.html

Sheila posted that we decided not to implement passwording on  
collections in addition to tickets
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001463.html

There were several discussions related to release planning for Cosmo  
0.5.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001478.html
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001479.html

We are doing a "sticky plan" exercise to develop a roadmap for  
Cosmo.   An Initial version and people's comments on this version  
appear in this thread
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001485.html

Adam Christian has made major progress in testing Cosmo using  
Selenium.  Links to useful documentation abound.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001486.html

Ted revived the Magic URL discussion: http://lists.osafoundation.org/ 
pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/001492.html.   Priscilla re-sent  
the end user workflows for this functionality: http:// 
lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001537.html. The discussion resulted in a proposal for a Universal  
URL spec: http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006- 
September/001561.html.   The key ideas of this spec are that a  
collection will have a url that is useful to a browser, and that  
other urls needed by popular clients will be embedded as meta data in  
that page, in a fashion reminiscent of RSS autodiscovery.   Both the  
desktop and server projects have agreed to this proposal, but we will  
not be implementing this functionality until  Chandler 0.7alpha5 and  
Cosmo 0.6, due to timing constraints with the Chandler 0.7alpha4  
release.

Daniel Gradecak asked about using an alternative JCR implementation  
in Cosmo
- Brian Moseley responded that JCR will no longer be supported once  
Hibernate is integrated
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001524.html

Bobby Rullo and Matthew Eernisse discussed the proper use of Dojo  
widgets.   This topic remains unsettled.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001532.html

Brian Moseley wanted people's thoughts on object identity in Cosmo,  
particularly with respect to Cosmo's usage/storage of UUID's.
- Ted Leung asked about Cosmo UUID's and Chandler UUID's and the  
relationship between them
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001538.html

Bobby Rullo posted some notes from a discussion with Jeffrey Harris  
on the topic of recurrence.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001551.html

Brian Moseley wanted to know people's opinion of restlets.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001539.html

Randy Letness was elected as a committer to the Cosmo project.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001552.html

Mikeal Rogers announced the availability of CalDAV draft 15.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001559.html

Matthew Eernisse posted status on UI features that were ready for  
Cosmo 0.5alpha1.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001566.html

Brian Moseley pointed to an article about using Hibernate annotations  
to perform model layer validation.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001571.html

Travis Vachon discovered an interesting authentication problem while  
trying to put an AJAX UI on top of CMP.   The thrust of the problem  
is that CMP uses HTTP BASIC Auth, but Cosmo's login system is form/ 
session based.   The use of BASIC means that the browser will pop up  
an authentication dialog, which will be confusing to users who have  
already logged in using the form	.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001573.html

Brian Moseley wondered if SVK could be a good solution to integrating  
sandboxes for Travis Vachon and Vinu Gopal
- Travis Vachon, Grant Baillie, and Jared Rhine all piped up with  
nice things to say about SVK
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001576.html

Clarke Brunsdon discovered a bug in documentation and submitted a patch
- Brian Moseley responded that the code, not the documentation, was  
in error.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001578.html

Philippe Bossut posted a link to an article about Nuxeo switching  
from Python to Java
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001593.html



Continuing discussions
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Discussion continued on a "server side" target user for Cosmo.   This  
discussion is an attempt to apply some target user methodology to  
users of server features such as GData/AtomPub API's.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001437.html


Meetings and Announcements
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Cosmo Engineering Meeting from 9/14/2006
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001519.html

Travis Vachon has joined the Cosmo project as an OSAF Employee
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-September/ 
001515.html