[Cosmo-dev] [Sum] Jan 21-27

[Ted Leung]

Here's the summary of the activity on cosmo-dev for the week of   
January 21, 2007.

New threads:
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Vinu Gopal had some questions about adding a list to the modify  
dialog for his group/ACL work:
* Travis Vachon responded with the needed help
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002611.html>

Travis Vachon proposed removing POST /cmp/<username>/delete from CMP
* Mikeal Rogers asked that Travis also remove the POST synonymous  
with PUT functionality
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002605.html>

Priscilla Chung updated the wiki page that tells people how to file a  
bug - we want people to report their browser and version in addition  
to the usual information.
* Randy Letness suggested that we ask people to report their database  
and database version
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002609.html>

Matthew Eernisse and Bobby Rullo discussed how to solve some problems  
with the extended cosmo.datetime.Date wrapper.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002614.html>

Vinu Gopal announced that his hibernate based version of CardDAV was  
all done
* Discussion ensued on how best to incorporate this into Cosmo.  It  
looks like this will not happen until 0.7
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002629.html>

Melissa Choy had questions about IE7 support
* Mikeal Rogers and Matthew Eernisse both told her that the Cosmo  
trunk should support IE7, but that previous versions did not.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002632.html>

Travis Vachon updated the CMP spec to describe what is in Cosmo 0.6.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002618.html>

Ted Leung wanted to know what the plans for IRC QA sessions were.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002619.html>

Adam Christian posted a summary of the week's IRC QA session.  29 new  
bugs were found.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002641.html>

Brian Moseley proposed a naming convention for Cosmo specific (JMX)  
mbeans.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002626.html>

Pawel Kaminski wanted know if Cosmo worked with KDE Kontact
* Brian Moseley responded that he didn't know of anyone who had tried  
that combination
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002633.html>

Mikeal Rogers posted about his rewrite of the old tests, which are  
now using the py.test Python test framework.
* Discussion helped him to remove a bunch of boilerplate code.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002631.html>

Ted Leung said that nominations for Cosmo 0.6 blockers was now open.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002639.html>

Mikeal Rogers surfaced a thread that he and Jared Rhine had been  
having about testing environments for Cosmo.
* One issue was to make sure that the database servers on the test  
machines are the same (MySQL vs Derby) as on the production machines.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002642.html>

Brian Moseley had questions about OSCON talks:
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002649.html>

Brian Moseley and Jeffrey Harris discussed the best way to represent  
certain iCalendar properties in EIM
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002655.html>

Jared Rhine updated the Cosmo migration instance again.  The  
procedure used is the "release candidate" for Cosmo 0.6
* He did it one more time and also posted timing data <http:// 
lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/002675.html>
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002664.html>

Aparna Kadakia posted a summary of the first set of blockers  
determined by the Cosmo bug council:
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002671.html>

Continuing Conversations:
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Brian Moseley agreed that timezone handling in EIMML had been  
overlooked.  He later checked in functionality, which required some  
minor tweaks.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002590.html>

There was further discussion of the process of designating blockers  
for Cosmo 0.6.
* Aparna Kadakia posted a reference to the Chandler process <http:// 
lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/002593.html>
* In the end, use of the blocking flag was adopted for Cosmo 0.6
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-January/ 
002591.html>