[Dev] OSAF Status Overview, Aug 10

[Lisa Dusseault]

See <http://wp.osafoundation.org/2005/08/09/osaf-status-overview-aug-9/>  
for links



Highlights

     * Chandler M5 milestone will occur either on Aug 24 or when Item  
Collection and Set work is checked in. A lot of Chandler development  
progress evidently being made right now.
     * Scooby work officially kicked off with Matt Eernisse’s arrival.

Design

     * Progress: Prepared candidate themes or tenets for work in 0.7  
release, as well as SWAGs for high-level projects.
     * Plans: Finish virtuality paper, work on PIM workflows presentation

Application

     * Plan : Alec helping John more closely on Sets and Collections. m5  
tasks.
     * Progress : Lots of people at OSCon last week. Some progress against  
m5.
     * Problems : Sets and Collections a risk, likely making m5 slip
     * Personnel: Last week of Arel Cordero’s internship!

Services

     * Progress: Some SSL bugs fixed. Timezone support on individual  
events. Lots of sharing progress. Zanshin code reviewed.
     * Plans: Checkin and review timezone support. Recurrence proxies.
     * Problems: ACL support in Zanshin at risk.
     * Personnel: Jeffrey Harris to start full-time, in-office, Aug 29.

Dev Platform

     * Progress: Lots of progress in schema API and replacing parcel.xml.  
Logging framework cleaned up. Lots of i18n progress.
     * Plans: Content model review. Vote on getting rid of parcel XML. Set  
integration work.
     * Personnel: Andi on vacation.

QA/Build

     * Progress: Tinderbox SVN integration complete. Multiple build bugs  
fixed.
     * Plans: Finish Bonsai SVN integration which is nearly complete. Fix  
bug 2818. Launch/host more automated tests (CATS) making use of CPIA  
Script.
     * Personnel: Last week of Anthony De Franco’s internship!

Cosmo/Scooby

     * Progress: Parsing iCalendar bodies in PUT requests. Integrated  
Jackrabbit upgrades. OSCon panel. Evaluated AJAX libraries for use in  
Scooby — tentative recommendation to use prototype.
     * Plans: Evolve Brendan’s mockup into a data-backed WebApp — focus on  
dynamic and sexy calendar week view.
     * Personnel: Matt Eernisse joined team last week and is spending this  
week in the office.

IT

     * Progress: Plans to support Chandler 0.6 testing and usage by hosting  
Cosmo. Server database active.
     * Plans: Complete application development infrastructure work for IT  
projects. Complete systems inventory.
     * Personnel: Jared Rhine is now full-time with OSAF

Community

     * Progress: OSCon panels and presentations complete.
     * Plans: CSG Recalibration meeting coming up Aug 22-23 — Pieter, Lisa,  
Sheila preparing. CalConnect meeting coming up Sep 13-15 also hosted by  
OSAF.