[Cosmo-dev] Cosmo 0.7 status

[Ted Leung]

Hi folks,

Here's a general update on where things are with the Cosmo 0.7 release:

The Dashboard UI is the critical path for getting to feature complete  
for 0.7.   There are two major pieces of work:  a) a revamped detail  
view that show stamps.  2) the dashboard table view and accompanying  
client side behavior (triaging).

Matthew has checked in a version of the revamped detail view that is  
read-only - it can populate itself correctly from the currently  
selected item in the calendar.   Bobby is going to add the code that  
restores saving functionality.   For QA purposes, it  ought to be  
possible to start testing read only detail view behavior.     Matthew  
is going to go on and start work that leads to the table view.   His  
next stop is to do the view selector to allow switching between  
dashboard and calendar view.  After that, he is going to start on the  
actual list view itself.   When he does that, he is going to try and  
fix (and then not change) the structural elements of the list view  
(divs and their names, etc) so that we can start writing tests for  
the simpler list behaviors.     The current estimates that we are  
working off of include 5 days of slush/padding.   The detail view  
work has taken a bit longer than expected, and we have eaten 2 of  
those 5 days already.

Travis and Brian are doing dashboard infrastructure support in the  
client and server, respectively.   Travis will soon be rolling off to  
work on search in the admin UI, and Brian will start looking at the  
server side implementation of the dashboard sorting/triaging  
behavior.    Randy will also be helping with these behaviors, in  
addition to looking at Cosmo server performance.   He just checked in  
some code that will help him get a better characterization of where  
performance bottlenecks are.

We have a lot of things going on right now, and it is hard to keep  
track of what is happening, even if you are reading all the commit  
messages.   I am going to try and do a summary like this every week  
from now until we hit feature complete.   If people have questions  
which aren't answered her, or corrections, please feel free to ask/ 
follow up.

Ted