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Maemo.org Sprints/May 09

Revision as of 13:28, 12 June 2009

May 2009 Sprint planning

• Planning meeting: Thursday, 2009-05-07 at 13:30 UTC in #maemo-meeting.
• Right after Maemo.org Sprints/April 09 review.
• Followed by Maemo.org Sprints/June 09.

Tasks

Ongoing tasks carried here from the previous sprint + New tasks committed by their owners in the sprint meeting. They come from the tasks in the Backlog and the Proposals.

Activity log

Latest activity report goes on top.

2009-06-12

• Dave
  • Today: Draft call for content for Maemo Summit, push along content committee for conference
  • Yesterday: Email and forums. Mostly got waylaid working on the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit and helping co-ordinate a conference stand for a local non-profit.

• Jeremiah
  • Building some apps in fremantle
  • Considering how to remove python apps in the SDK and releasing them to the world

2009-06-11

• Dave
  • Today: Finalise initial list of moderators for Brainstorm
  • Last few days: Working out issues with Fremantle beta, working on bugs, initial planning for library.maemo.org, Council public IRC meeting.

• Andre
  • Today: Discussing doc issues + some Fremantle bug objectives; Update&document doc bugs handling in Bugsquad wikipages; Import outstanding api doc bugs of modules that are not handled in public; Continue updating reports wrt Fremantle (Testing, Reproducing etc)
  • Yesterday: Add 'docs' keyword and split doc bugs into general and api-refs; Updating reports wrt Fremantle (Testing, Reproducing etc)

• Jeremiah
  • Worked on the inotify interface to incoming packages to fremantle, that looks perhaps ready to use. Need to confer with Niels on when and how to move away from cron
  • Styled itp.cgi a bit since people said it looked web 1.0 (or web 0.5 :p)

2009-06-10

• Andre
  • Today: Add 'docs' keyword and split doc bugs into general and api-refs; Updating reports wrt Fremantle (Testing, Reproducing etc)
  • Yesterday: Updating reports wrt Fremantle (Testing, Reproducing etc); internal weekly report

• Alexey
  • Today: org.maemo.productstats component is running and gathering stats for App-karma

• Jeremiah
  • Major hacking on ITP, testing, fixing bugs, exposing it to users to test
  • itp.cgi will be used for RFP as well

2009-06-09

• Niels
  • Today: Website bug fixing, work on QA interface doc.

• Jeremiah
  • Connecting database to front-end cgi
  • This should allow us a way to search and see which packages are already in maemo, packages coming in, and what package people want

2009-06-08

• Niels
  • Friday: Checked aftermath of webserver harddisk failure issues, tested products stats module for App karma, checked clutter dependency fixes on autobuilder.
  • Today: Fixes for Downloads automatic import script (version issue),more app karma testing, attend council meeting. Look at broken packages in extras.

• Andre
  • Today & Friday: Mostly updating report statuses wrt Fremantle (Testing, Reproducing etc)

2009-06-06

• Jeremiah
  • More work on itp.cgi, weekend hacking is fun

2009-06-06

• Jeremiah
  • Hacked on itp.cgi, the interface to creating an "Intent to Package" event.

2009-06-04

• Jeremiah
  • Hacked maemian mostly, integrating upstream code base
  • Nokia changes available

2009-06-02

• Jeremiah
  • Maemian upstream integration, styling, and logic changes
  • Maemian actually parses debs and spits out info, still lots of warnings though

2009-06-03

• Andre
  • Yesterday: Mostly some Scratchbox bugs reproducing and testing
  • Today: Some Brainstorm discussing & beta-testing; hacking on my Greasemonkey scripts

• Dave
  • Yesterday: Continued discussion on brainstorm moderators. Niels had some suggestions about adding moderator groups per brainstorm module to ensure that only moderators who are competent to change state of ideas do so. I'm not convinced it's a problem. Invitations for initial moderators sent. Awaiting replies.
  • Today: Bits & pieces - email, bugs & forums. Mostly working on a different project.

• Niels
  • Yesterday: Caught up on email, got good news on bug 4503. Updated and worked on stats. Discussed brainstorm workflow with Dave. Lots of minor things.
  • Today: Plot out QA plan. Discuss with Jeremiah who does what. Talk to Alexey about App Karma.

2009-06-02

• Niels
  • Friday: Traveled to Copenhagen, had some great discussions at the social event at ITU.
  • Saturday: Had some talks about autobuilding with developers. Decreased autobuilder and repository processing delays for Fremantle Extras-devel. Ported some libs to Fremantle, tested some extras-devel apps out on the developer device. Worked on enhancements for Downloads
  • Sunday: Talked with Fennec guys about how to provide updates through Extras. Had discussions with Mer guys about how to offer Nokia binaries for Mer through maemo.org. Looked at a demonstration of OBS by David Greaves to see how Mer uses this service. Sat down with Andre and Soumya to push bug #4503. Discussed the use of Transiflex for community translations.

2009-06-01

• Dave
  • Friday: Made good progress on Brainstorm - discussed with Henri, council and Andre, copying Ubuntu brainstorm moderator guidelines, prepared initial proposal for moderators
  • Today: Short day today. Follow up on moderators, adding a few more people on suggestion of council. Awaiting approval before sending out invitations.

2009-05-31

• Andre (at Mozilla/Maemo Danish weekend)
  • Yesterday: collected bugs and added "upstream" keyword them; write guidelines for Cloning internal bugs; fixed obsolete milestones so Bugzilla database sanity check succeeds; conference talks/presentations/discussions
  • Today: Some triaging; discussed bug 4503 with Niels & Soumya; conference talks/presentations/discussions

• Jeremiah (at Mozilla/Maemo Danish weekend)
  • Pulled down the fennec deb to try to do some reverse engineering
  • Spoke with the Mozilla team about packaging fennec

2009-05-30

• Jeremiah (at Mozilla/Maemo Danish weekend)
  • Worked a bit with Kees to get gary's liqbase into a deb
  • Conferencing with the rest of the folks, listening to talks, etc.
  • Short discussion with Niels about autobuilding

2009-05-29

• Dave
  • Yesterday: library.maemo.org - Meetings with Soumya and Jarmo, Stefan, a detailed discussion with Murray, more exchanges with Fred, and a good exchange between Murray, Jarmo and myself on the new docs infrastructure.
  • Today: Continue discussion on docs, try to figure out the major issues with the proposed architecture. Research Ubuntu Brainstorm. Talk to Jaffa, GA, Henri about what they expect from moderation guidelines and moderators.

• Jeremiah
  • Maemian hacking.
  • Finally fixed a bug that was plaguing me on test.m.o but did not exist in later versions of debian, (test.m.o is debian etch).

2009-05-28

• Dave
  • This week: Work through several documentation bugs, catch up with email, forums, and start plans for library.maemo.org - talked to Fred Peters to get more technical details about library.gnome.org
  • Today: Phone meeting with Jarmo and Soumya about coproduction of Maemo documentation, first draft of moderator guidelines for Maemo ideas, talk to Murray and Stefan about requirements and path to attaining them.

• Jeremiah
  • Trying to track down a bug in one of the maemian perl modules
  • Sent a mail to lintian team about it, and have filed a bug in Perl's RT

2009-05-26

• Niels
  • Yesterday: Worked on garage performance issues. Added new styling skin for promoter.
  • Today: Look at autobuilder version comparison issue. Work on Package QA and interface.

2009-05-25

• Niels
  • Today: Work on garage performance issues. Add new styling skin for promoter. Talk to Jeremiah about the package database etc.

2009-05-22

• Jeremiah
  • Working on maemian, did a test run on some .dsc files
  • Found a way to add uploaders to the packaging database
  • Needs more discussion with Niels before implementation

2009-05-21

• Jeremiah
  • Sending some more packages to the automated builder
  • Serious work on maemian

2009-05-20

• Niels
  • Today: Automatically rebuild all libs from diablo for fremantle.

• Andre
  • Last days: Normal Triage/Sync; Clean up oops/admin group in Bugzilla; Contact packagers using maemo-select-menu-location; Bug 3846...
  • Today: Monthly Feature Jar; bug 3846
  • Tomorrow&Friday: Two days off

2009-05-19

• Jeremiah
  • Packaging discussion with Jani
  • Began work on maemian, coding in earnest
  • Discussed a bit automated package building with Niels, wrote out a build order for extras-devel

• Niels
  • Last Thursday: Worked on website bugs and did a run of the automatic import for Extras -> Downloads, there are a few little issues but seemed to work.
  • Today: Catch up on email. Create script which automatically tries to build all libs in Diablo Extras for Fremantle.

• Daniel
  • working on test environment:
    • CAS is running
    • LDAP directory contains few test accounts
    • Wiki is integrated
    • working on GForge and User Management
    • will update the wiki today

2009-05-15

• Jeremiah
  • Building diablo packages in the autobiulder
  • Surfed iTT and #maemo

2009-05-14

• Jeremiah
  • Building packages from diablo in fremantle
  • Blogged about packaging resources
  • Created a simple python app to be used as a packaging example
  • Surfing iTT for packaging problems

2009-05-13

• Niels
  • Yesterday and Monday: Worked on website bugs, fixed some styling issues, had some QA discussions and started to draw up an idea for the repository management interface for QA.
  • Today: Work on more website bugs and work on the Extras QA scripts/backend.
  • Friday, weekend, Monday: Not available because of a short trip.

• Andre
  • Yesterday & Monday: Lots of syncing/forwarding issues; internal weekly report; short discussion about status whiteboard usage with GA
  • Today: Work on diffsets for bug 3846...

• Jeremiah
  • Began porting diablo packages to fremantle
  • Created a script that pushes packages into the incoming fremantle builder

2009-05-12

• Dave
  • Friday: Bank holiday here in France for VE Day
  • Sunday: Ran my first marathon in Geneva in 2h26:33
  • Yesterday: Caught up with email and backlog
  • Today: Start work on the Maemo Summit sub-tasks checklist

• Jeremiah
  • Discussing approach to QA Niels
  • Working with garage.m.o and testing.m.o to create git repos
  • Setting up local environment to do diablo package building

2009-05-11

• Niels
  • Friday: Worked on some website bugs, tested Brainstorm. Created a script for api documentation sync.
  • Today: Work on website bugs. Discuss concrete implementation plans for Extras QA with Jeremiah.

• Jeremiah
  • More QA policy discussion
  • Working on a database schema to use for QA testing
  • Looking at lintian source

2009-05-08

• Ryan
  • Yesterday: Chaired Sprint review.
  • Today: Inputing all of the May tasks (whew!).

• Jeremiah
  • Sprint review - well done Ryan!
  • Finishing up search prototype

• Quim
  • Yesterday: opened tmo threads for sprint tasks Task: Maemo Brainstorm & Task:Single sign-on for maemo.org - |sprint meeting - ping WesterGasFabriek to get their budget for Summit venue - feedback on Maemo Brainstorm. Not in the sprint but relevant: work on promotion of Mozilla Maemo Danish Weekend.
  • Today: Proposal of Brainstorm categories - expecting to get the budget from WesterGasFabriek + work on promotion of Mozilla Maemo Danish Weekend.

2009-05-05

• Jeremiah
  • Updating external repos list
  • Built search.maemo.org prototype -> here

2009-05-04

• Jeremiah
  • Started hacking on a search script for packages

2009-05-01

• Jeremiah
  • A little community chatter in #maemo and on lists
  • Gave the queue-manager a punch in the stomach to get it to index things.
  • Re-installing fremantle 5 beta SDK