[Cosmo-dev] [Sum] Oct 7-13

[Ted Leung]

Here's the summary of the activity on cosmo-dev for the week of  
October 7, 2007.

New threads:
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Brian Moseley noticed that the trunk was set to be Cosmo 0.8.1 and  
proposed that the trunk be kept at the major version number, not the  
bugfix release version number.   People agreed with this.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004899.html>

Ted Leung asked what the frequency of Cosmo releases should be and  
proposed 2 weeks.    There was a significant amount of discussion  
about this.  In particular, the QA folks felt that a two week cycle  
might be difficult to maintain, and many of the developers preferred  
a 4 week cycle.  After some clarification of requirements, there was  
some additional discussion and out of the box thinking.   This lead  
to Brian Moseley and Randy Letness going off to try and modularize  
Cosmo into subprojects so that different parts of the system could  
rev at different rates more easily.  In the interim, it seemed like  
people were willing to try two week cycles, as long as there was  
recognition that other process changes might be required.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004905.html>

Jared Rhine forwarded a problem report from an Opera user who was  
having trouble signing up for an account.
+ The problem turns out to be in Opera's inclusion of a Content- 
Transfer-Encoding header in the request.  The fix is to ignore and  
log the header and proceed
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004921.html>

Mikeal Rogers sent a reminder of bugzilla process for bugs that get  
fixed before the bug council has a chance to look at them.   This is  
important because the QA team looks at bugs in particular milestones,  
so bugs that get resolved in --- milestones never get verified by QA.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004935.html>

Brian Moselely posted that he was starting to do some thinking about  
scheduling, particularly the impact on the backend.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004939.html>

Travis Vachon reported the results of his investigations of the Git  
distributed version control system.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004942.html>

Jared Rhine filed a bug to drop the 443 in webcal URLs - Cosmo  
already drops the https because iCal 2.x can't do https.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004947.html>

Adam Christian reported performance problems on qacosmo after running  
the 0.8 migration scripts.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004956.html>

Brian Moseley described his plans for splitting Cosmo into subprojects
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004960.html>

Mikeal Rogers checked in some enhancements to the protocol level  
tests for Cosmo including the ability to pass the url and path of the  
server being tested.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004963.html>

Ted Leung making the bug council even more asynchronous by moving  
more of the work to e-mail, but a number of people felt that this  
would be a bad move, so the proposal was dropped.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004972.html>

Ted Leung moved bugs from the Cosmo 1.0 milestone to the Cosmo 0.9  
milestone.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004973.html>

Heikki Toivonen crossposted to the Cosmo list on the topic of  
handling the version numbers of Chandler Desktop and Chandler Server  
on the chandlerproject.org homepage.  The rest of the discussion  
played out on chandler-dev
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004974.html>

Ted Leung reported that a user found a brown paper bag bug in Cosmo  
0.7.4, so a Cosmo 0.7.5 was going to be needed.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004982.html>

Ted Leung reported that Cosmo 0.7.5 would also force a respin of  
Cosmo 0.8RC1.  A few additional bug fixes would also go into Cosmo  
0.8RC2
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004982.html>

Ted Leung raised some questions about bug 11010 which involved  
syncing collection name changes.   Because some of the questions were  
over whether the bug was desktop or server side  or both, the  
discussion ended up moving to the design list.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004989.html>

Brian Moseley commented on the commit for r5911/bug 11019, because it  
would mean not updating the displayName, which would mean that Cosmo  
could not figure out which collection was referenced by a  
hierarchical DAV url
+ Randy Letness replied that there were situations (a DAV client does  
a put, followed by Chandler Desktop changing the item name) where  
URI's could become invalide
+ Brian Mosely replied that this would be a problem for bug 9145
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004991.html>

Jared Rhine asked for an explanation of the error codes generated  
during the signup process.   He got no response.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004996.html>

Aparna Kadakia proposed a series of QA process changes with the goal  
of eliminating as much manual testing as possible.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004997.html>

Continuing Conversations:
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The discussion on re-sharing read-only collections continued.  Morgen  
Sagen suggested that the server prevent an item being copied from one  
collection to another unless the user has read/write permission on  
the item - this being determined by the user having at least one read- 
write ticket for any collection containing that item.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004958.html>

There were additional comments on the question of short variable  
names, and refactorings packed in the same commits as bug fixes.
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004901.html>

Meetings, Announcements:
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Adam Christian reported that Cosmo 0.7.4RC3 had passed QA
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004950.html>

Mike Taylor (Bear) announced the availability of the Cosmo 0.7.4 build
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004952.html>

Ted Leung announced the availability of Cosmo 0.7.4
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004959.html>

Mike Taylor (Bear) announced the availability of Cosmo 0.7.5.RC1
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/ 
004995.html>