[cosmo-dev] [Sum] Nov 11-17

[Ted Leung]

Here's the summary of the activity on cosmo-dev for the week of  
November 11, 2007.

New threads:
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Travis Vachon reported that developers were having trouble testing  
Safari 2 after they had upgraded to Mac OS 10.5.
+ There was a long thread on whether to drop support for Safari 2,  
and when to do so.
+ Ted Leung reported that as of Mac OS 10.4.11, Safari 3 was also the  
default browser for Mac OS 10.4
+ There was some discussion about putting up a fancy unsupported  
browser page.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005185.html>

Travis Vachon noticed that the web UI is using a lot of synchronous  
requests.   He volunteered to go through the code and make it  
asynchronous where possible.
+ There was general agreement that this was a good thing to do.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005204.html>

Jared Rhine reported on the status of the unannounced Cosmo 0.9  
build, which had some significant performance regressions.
+ In the end the culprit turned out to be a newer version of the  
Abdera library
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005205.html>

Jared Rhine requested that Ted Leung clarify the order in which  
developers were processing bugs
+ Ted replied by pointing to a previous message containing that  
information
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005244.html>

Bobby Rullo had some thoughts in the wake of the problems with Cosmo  
0.9.  Big takeaway items were database reversion scripts, and not  
replying on SNAPSHOT dependent libraries.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005248.html>

Jared Rhine reported on the status of Cosmo 0.10 - he was in favor of  
branching the release.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005253.html>

Mikeal Rogers described some of the work he had been doing on the  
collection/reporting frameworks for Windmill.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005255.html>

Benoit Mercier described the steps he followed to run Cosmo as just  
another web app in an existing Tomcat container.
+ Brian Moseley clarified some of the things that the war expects to  
get from the deployer
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005257.html>

Ted Leung posted a few thoughts about performance bugs, FLOSS sprint  
related bugs, and 0.11 bugs
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005258.html>

Continuing Conversations:
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Randy Letness wanted to know if his interface refactoring work should  
be included in 0.11
+ Brian Moseley and Ted Leung thought it should be included
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005181.html>

Adam Christian replied to Bobby Rullo's Windmill testing plea and  
said that he would try to get more time to work on some of the items  
in Bobby's message.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005182.html>

Matthew Eernisse responded to Travis Vachon's comments on web UI  
documentation.  He was largely in agreement with Travis, with the  
exception of the proper role and use of topics within the web ui.
+ Travis replied with a proposal on how to move forward on the issue  
of topics.
+ Matthew responded with some update performance measurements of Dojo  
topics but was in agreement with trying Travis' approach.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005188.html>

Morgen Sagen replied to Randy Letness' proposal for securing items in  
multiple collections asking for clarification on the role of tickets  
vs user accounts for syncing.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005203.html>

Meetings, Announcements:
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Jared Rhine announced the availability of Cosmo 0.9.1
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-November/ 
005231.html>