SPRINT 3 AND EARLIER

Sprint 3 went live 12/12. 

wednesday, Dec. 12

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

 

 

 

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

nothing Thalia

update help files

 

Justin

 

 

 

Qing

 fixed th139 and th406 for sprint 4
investigated and found a temporary fix for  th422
investigated paging

 modify the access control wiki
possible release at night

 

Robin

 

 

 

 
Tuesday

11 December 2007 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

Load testing vs. Alfresco 2.1.1.

--

Other work.

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

Entered a bunch of issues in Jira, started the long task of inserting style headers into testing documents. Loaded Office 2007 into Mac. Makes work easier, sort of.

Continue working on testing document; follow up on some bugs; test more.

Have a cold.

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

 

 

 

Justin

 

 

 

Qing

Release to QA
start working on th139

finish th139
more sprint 4 tasks

 

Robin

sprint 4 bug fixing -- trying to clear out the easy to fix ones

review Qing's access control notes
more sprint 4 bugs
back to the extended metadata work

 

Notes:


Monday December 10 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

Load testing vs. Alfresco 2.1.1.

Vacation.

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

Finished Upload help section, uploaded to Wiki; tested fixed bugs; reviewed bugs.

Tested a bunch; figured out how to structure the huge testing document. It will be given a clickable TOC, a navigator view, sections will be moveable - useful for regrouping funtionality areas.

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

 

 

 

Justin

 

 

 

Qing

fixed bug TH395 and TH399
wrote up access control notes

release to QA
start working on sprint 4

 

Robin

Had a breakthrough on extended metadata work over the weekend, should go much more smoothly now
Fixed TH-391, TH-296

Merge sprint3 branch back into trunk
Extended metadata
Some bug fixing for sprint 4 (for variety) 

 

Notes:


Friday, December 7

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

worked on Upload help

finish writing up Upload help, put up on Wiki; write up a couple more suggestions for Upload screen changes; test

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

Reviewed sprint 3 bugs

none today
Monday: scheduled time to take care of bugs 241, 98. Bug 300 (wiki area, roadmap) is 90% done, but not linked to the web page so users won't find it.    Roadmap is at https://wikis-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/confluence/display/ZEST/Thalia+Roadmap . Please review - I will connect it next week.

Offsite meeting all day

Justin

Fixed a bunch of Sprint 3 issues.
Dealt with too many meetings.

Finish up artwork issues.

Working from home today. Trying to prevent getting sick before next week's Kerberos board meeting.

Qing

trying to prove to alfesco that the ticket caching problem we are experiencing is a bug on their end
testing and bug filing

write up the access control notes

 

Robin

 

(worked on SMA, to try and get that off my plate so it wont interfere with thalia)

 

Notes:

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Thursday, December 6

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

Did a lot of testing; found bugs; wrote them up

Plan to work on Upload help file

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

 

 

 

Justin

Cleaned up a few more artwork issues.

Finish up all art related issues.

Multiple meetings to contend with.

Qing

alfresco meeting
help testing Sprint 3
worked with Alfresco on the ticket caching issue
update build doc in wiki

more testing
continue investigate the ticket caching issue

 

Robin

sprint 3 bugs

sprint 3 bugs

 



Wednesday, Dec. 5

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

 

get instruction from Robin on Snapz Thursday

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

Navigator artwork.

More navigator artwork.

 

Justin

 

 

 

Qing

 fixed th-361
started researching on access control
met with the alfresco consultant

alfresco meeting
help testing Sprint 3
write up thoughts on access control
update build doc in wiki

 

Robin

still struggling with extended metadata

sprint 3 bugs

 

Tuesday, December 4

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

tested - a lot, looked at test document, downloaded Snapz,
spoke with Brian about QA, spent a lot of time learning Mac OS

test new UI, tried out solutions for TOC of test document
tried out Snapz, will have a Snapz tutorial with Robin on Thursday
continued setting up Mac.

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

(Friday)
the spider phone magically appeared
Bryan is arranging more conf call slots through end of February
learned IS&T article is going out 12/21
fomented discussion about release date, risks, and rollback

nothing

meetings

Justin

Finished major work on navigator.

Finalize new artwork.

 

Qing

branched out the code for sprint 3 and released to QA
sprint planning meeting
finished the utility program for thalia statistics

pick up the access control stuff again

 

Robin

Friday:
checked in code with all sprint 3 work, free form tagging, without extended metadata changes 
Monday:
sprint planning meeting
branched front-end code for sprint 3 release to QA
sat in on interview about thalia for spotlight article
merged latest trunk changes into my branch for extended metadata

extended metadata
note: working from home, as I was in yesterday;
will be in the office thursday 

 

Notes:


Monday, December 3 - no scrum, Sprint planning instead


Friday, November 30

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

tested uploading with foreign letters - doesn't work, began
setting up laptop

tweak slideshow, review access control wiki, review bug list,

test as boell/guest

sick

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

started roadmap
https://wikis-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/confluence/display/ZEST/Thalia+Roadmap

check on spider phone in conf room
submit lunch order to Bryan
check on IS&T newsletter release date - we'll be a feature article in it 
arrange for extra conf call slots, since we ran out today, and extend bridge schedule

 

Justin

 

 

 

Qing

another release to QA
access control meeting

fixed th-333: add free form support in bulk upload with user specified metadata 
continue working on the utility program that output metrics
communication with alfresco: give them files they need

alfresco

Robin

deployed load time improvements to QA
access control meeting

finish pulling apart code, for clean release of only free-form tagging
check in all code for sprint 3 to the trunk, without the extended metadata stuff

 

Notes:

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Thursday, November 28

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

work on slide show, test, reviewed white paper

build last slide, review test docs from Brian, test bulk uploading with foreign
characters, laptop arrived.

need to learn Mac OS

Hunter

 


 

Janet

arranged lunch for Monday
revise white paper
started roadmap on wiki

whitepaper
roadmap

 

Justin

  1. Continued navigator work.
  2. Received psd file from Deanna.

More navigator.

 

Qing

Investigated and fixed bug th-332
also investigated the problem of frequent certificate prompting (don't think it is an issue)

another release to QA
access control meeting
talk to Alfresco

alfresco hasn't responded to my ticket yet

Robin

finished freeform tagging
reviewed OL's code review
load time improvements

deploy load time improvements to test
extended metadata 
access control meeting

only 4 hrs sleep, not sure how productive I will be today

Notes:


Wendesday, November 28 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

other work, vacation

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

filed a couple JIRA tasks for myself for help pages

arrange lunch for Monday
give comments on whitepaper
reply to Thalia query from France

 

Justin

  1. More navigator.
  2. Waiting for psd files from Deanna.

More navigator.

 

Qing

mavenized buildthaliadomain utility program
reviewd white paper
discussed with Cassandra about slideshow quality

investigate Brian's bug about images not showing in his libraries
and frequent prompting of certificates
start an utility program on output thalia metrics

 

Robin

Freeform tagging coming along
Reviewed white paper edits from Cassandra
Reviewed Brian's comments on access control

Finish up freeform tagging

 

Notes:


Tuesday, Nov 27

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

-- 

other work* *

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

 

 

 

Justin

Navigator

  1. More navigator.
  2. Waiting on psd from Deanna.

 

Qing

made a config change which should hopefully fix cassandra's bug
opened a ticket with Alfresco
investigated the thumbnail generation for pdf file: need to install ghostscript
on the server

mavenize buildthaliadomain utility

sick

Robin

Worked on extended metadata, hitting some frustrating road blocks

free-form tagging (need a break from the extended metadata problems)

 

Monday, November 26

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

other work

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

released new website to live service
took campus tour Weds, dumped photos on Flickr

none planned today

 

Justin

navigator

more navigator

 

Qing

access control discussion
research on Cassandra's bug about treating users as guests after 1 hour

investigate more on the bug

 

Robin

turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes

sprint 3 tasks

 

Notes:


Thursday and Friday, November 22-23 : Thanksgiving Holiday


Wednesday, November 21

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

other work

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

finished web page edits, put up on thalia-test

taking campus tour this AM to get more pictures of campus for demo
collecting edits for the web page - Qing mentioned some things aren't accuragte

phoning into Scrum while I walk to tour

Justin Progress on navigator work.

 

 

 

Continue navigator work. Qing

 

 

Sinus infection. Working from home.

Robin

access control discussion
wrote up latest proposal (significantly different than previous ones) in wiki, thought through some use cases

sprint 3 tasks - tagging, some bugs

 

Notes:

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Tuesday, November 20

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

Reconfigured continuum deployment builds per Qing's request.

--

other work

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

finalized IAP reservation with Brian
looked at web traffic report for last week - we've got company!
edited website pages

finish editing website pages
ask Hunter for PHP on FE machines - will need it  for giving help pages a makeover, editing the header and footer on every  page is for the birds, and we'll need it for the report a bug form

 

Justin

Vacation

Continue navigator work

Possible sinus infection forming. Most likely working from home today.

Qing

released to QA
wrote up another plan for access control
looked into the problem of path query fails on thalia-dev and thalia-test. We need to rebuild index when moving alfresco repositories
looked into Cassandra's bug on thalia treating valid users as guests

access control discussion
continue looking into Cassandra's bug (no clue why it happens)

 

Robin

Mostly non-thalia work; discussed access controls some with Qing

access control discussion
wrote up latest proposal (significantly different than previous ones) in wiki, thought through some use cases

 

Notes:


Monday, November 19 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

Work on continuum server.

other work

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

finished a first draft of help section for Uploading, using Brian's outline


 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

 


in a class this AM, will miss scrum

Justin

 

 

 

Qing

training
fixed the317 and th316
th256 and th 118 is also fixed due to the 2.1.1 upgrade

another release to QA
wrote up thoughts on access control

 

Robin

Did some work on tagging, got pulled away to finish up some SMA (amps legacy tool) work

Back to the tagging work

Need to finish up one last thing on the SMA work first

Notes:


Friday, November 16

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

pinged Bryan about IAP reservation;  he wasn't available. We'll coordinate later.
Signed up for data warehouse account so I can see some web traffic data.

Rearrange help file area in SVN.

Look over Cassandra's project site web pages, add to SVN, put up on thalia-test.
Untangle the rest of the counter web traffic data - it's a multi-step process.

 

Justin

Nothing Thalia relevant.

Kerberos.

 

Qing

did another release of sprint 3 to QA
uploaded lots of images for Brian because he accidentally deleted a large libraries and he needs to test data
halfway through coding the ownable service

training

 

Robin

 

 

 

Notes:


Thursday, November 15

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

Finished edits to Thalia demo web pages

Reviewing uploading Help page 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

reserved  a room in student union for IAP - Thursday January 24, 1-3PM

working out reservation details with Bryan

won't be at scrum today- 10:30 meeting across campus
need a snappy 50 word description for IAP  schedule, will email

Justin

Fixed TH-299, TH-312, TH-313, TH-314

Working on Kerberos the rest of this week.

 

Qing

access control discussion
reverse the change which locks down thumbnail/medium/large access

another release to QA
investigate the ownable service so we can take ownership of an item when necessary

 

Robin

 

 

 

Notes:


Wednesday, November 14

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

other work, vacation rest of this week

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

 

Will work on web pages for Thalia demo site.

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

meetings all day, not much accomplished

tbd - there's lots to do, I haven't planned which to do yet

planning time

Justin

Spent whole day looking into TH-299. Uncovered a lot more bugs, linked off that one.

Continue working on TH-299 and related bugs.

 

Qing

access control discussion with Robin and Brian
worked with Judy on her bulk upload problems
investigated Alfresco's filelink feature

access control discussion
review Sprint 3 tasks based on the outcome from the discussion

 

Robin

Added redirect to "about" page when there is no domain specified
Discussed access control issues
Wrote up notes about access control discussion

More access control discussion
Clean up some minor bugs

Review my Sprint 3 task

 

Notes:


Tuesday, November 13 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

other work

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

put up placeholder page on herme.mit.edu/thalia/about.html so there's something nice for InfoWorld traffic to see
added photos to demo library

getting Cassandra settled
website html arrived today; delegating to Cassandra to put the html and the tech writing together

meetings today
recovering from holiday weekend

Justin

Remerged sprint 2 with trunk

Continue navigator redesign

 

Qing

downloaded and tested 2.1.1

access control discussion

 

Robin

 

 

 

Notes:


Monday, November 12 - Veterans Day Holiday
 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

holiday

Arnis

 

 

 

Cassandra

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

 

 

put up placeholder page on herme.mit.edu/thalia/about.html so there's something nice for InfoWorld traffic to see
added photos to demo library

Justin

 

 

 

Qing

 

 

 

Robin


Catching up on what's been happening
Review  Sprint 3 tasks, assess what I can get done
Tagging

At 2pm, when I am free to be in public again, I will need to go run around the neighborhood dancing and screaming. Shouldn't take too long.

Notes:

Friday, November 9

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

other work

Arnis

At scrum training

At scrum training

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

Reviewed Leah's website text - looks good
Review Deanna's revised  website design, gave green light for html
Sent release note to thalia-info

when html arrives, put text into pages, check for any problems
Some last minute set-up for Cassandra's first day Tuesday

waiting on html design, but expect it today

Justin

Started coding navigator redesign

Trying to make this a Kerberos day

 

Qing

distracted by the web service problem
merged the access control code to Trunk, released it to QA

problem with the UI merge
re-release sprint 3 part 1
download and test with alfresco 2.1.1

 

Robin

 

 

 

Notes: Web services crisis is taking up a lot of resources.  Monday is a holiday.

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Thursday, November 8

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

Changed doc work target to this sprint; left rest (the real development work) at sprint 3.

--

Other work.

Arnis

 

at Scrum training

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

Talked with Leah about website text

Review the website text Leah sent this morning
Review Deanna's revised design
Read over the Thalia UI correspondence to keep up with the class


Justin

  1. TH-302: added update lag to matrixview
  2. Wrote up critique on second draft of navigator redesign
  1. Begin work on navigator redesign
  1. Heat is not working at home. Might take a while to fix.

Qing

1. talked with Justin about performance improvement for the matrix view
2. talked with alumni association about using thalia
3. modify the code to reduce thumbnail/medium/large quality which results in file size reduction and better performance

merge the code & release to QA

 

Robin

--

back to tagging as best I can

This week is turning out to be a wash for me. I will do what I can, but do not expect to accomplish a lot.

Notes:

1. Today's technical meeting is cancelled.

2. Janet will make a page in wiki for Sprint 3 planning. Everybody please revisit his/her tasks and update the page with their priorities.

Wednesday, November 7 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

Other work.

Arnis

 

 

 

Hunter

no thalia

no thalia

web services taking priority

Janet

talked w/Deanna re: project website and Thalia interface. She returned a new versin of the website. The interface is challenging, but she hoped to have a solution to the design issues last night or today.

Look at new website design
Talk with Leah.

At a class this morning, no Scrum.

There are questions about whether we can realistically finish all the Sprint 3 tasks. We should evaluate that as a group sometime soon, perhaps next week when Robin is available.

Justin

Resolved a few minor Sprint 3 issues: TH-137, 202, 278.

More Sprint 3 bits.

If the new navigator design isn't finalized soon, it should be moved to Sprint 4.
If that happens, I'll be able to take some of the issues assigned to Robin.

Qing

Test the new code in Firefox and found problem with caching and SSL
read up on http caching

talk to Justin about improving perfomance both from the UI and the IME.

 

Robin

 

 

 

Notes:

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Tuesday, November 6

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

Talked with Qing a bunch about current priorities and capabilities for the build system; updated and created a bunch of stuff in Jira.

Prioritize the aforementioned tasks.

All meetings, all the time.

Arnis

 

 

 

Hunter

Thalia deploy

I will still be waiting on Alfresco

the web services situation is my top priority. 

Janet

released Sprint 2 to production
revised release process notes as I went
filed JIRA bugs from PSB meeting notes

website, if anything

meeting day

Justin

Non-thalia work

Sprint 3 tasks

Finding time between meetings

Qing

more web service work
talked with Alfresco about ticket caching
talked with Jim Bales at Edgerton center about creating their domains
helped with the Sprint2 release

more access control code testing
merge the code back to trunk for tomorrow's QA release
write the QA release note about the access control change

 

Robin

 

 

 

Notes:


Monday, November 5

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

Out.

Arnis

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

tried unsuccessfully to reproduce TH-195
worked on website

release tonight - probably 9PM
send website info to Leah

need a rollback plan if release doesn't work - where's the current .war file?

Justin

All-day Kerberos

More Kerberos unless needed

 

Qing

worked on the mitid web service
looked at the alfresco authentication code
started the conversation with Alfresco for help on managing
cached tickets

test the access control code to prepare for Tuesday/Wednesday QA release
recompile and redeploy the buildthaliadomain utility

 

Robin

 

 

 

Notes: Brian said the release looks good. He can't close the back end bugs for adding reporting to IME and for tomcat creating multiple sessions; a developer will have to do that.


Friday, November 2

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

Mostly non-Thalia this week.

Arnis

 

out

 

Hunter

 

nothing today

 

Janet

wrote up PSB notes in https://wikis-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/confluence/display/ZEST/10.31.07+meeting+with+PSB .

Try reproducing a few bugs
Turn PSB notes into JIRA items 
Website
reproduce TH-195

Need Qing to review meeting notes to fill in a few gaps

Justin

  1. Fixed TH-190 for real.
  2. Updated svn and wiki with info on new Flash + OS X 10.5
  1. Really a Kerberos day today.

 

Qing

1. updated build doc to reflect recent changes
2. fixed bug th273

really get to the access control stuff

had to spend time on the web service crash

Robin

 

out

 

Notes:

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Thursday 1 November 2007 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

Mostly non-Thalia this week.

Arnis

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

Visited PSB with Qing.
Extended verbal offer to Cassandra. She's interested. She knows she'll be technically employed by MITemps.

Contact MITemps, start paperwork.
Write down PSB notes and share with Qing; file bugs where appropriate.


Justin

  1. Finished up navigator redesign critique.
  1. Mostly a Kerberos day.

 

Qing

1. PSB meeting
2. work on psb bulk uploading issues
3. work with Brian to help with his testing
4. finished mavenize the IME using profiles and resource filtering

1. finish the access control stuff

 

Robin

  1.  IS&T new employee orientation
  2. Worked on extendedMetadata, implemented suggestions from OL successfully
  3. Interviewed contract developer candidate
  1. Displaying existing extended metadata values
  2. Saving new extended metadata values
  3. Deleting existing values


Notes:

* Janet will enter JIRA tasks for 1) configuring isda-build1 for front end build and 2) Robin to finish mavenizing front end build

* Brian  asked for better bug writing: explicit descriptions for bugs, descriptions of fix so QA knows more about the cause and what to test,  and build version that the fix appears in, so he knows the fix was tested.

* Brian also asked that if there are bugs we wish to mark "wont fix" because a larger upcoming feature makes them non-issues, then put a comment in, and assign them to the sprint where the feature that will fix them lives. That way they can stay int he system as placeholders, and be closed when the new feature is in place and they truly are no longer issues.


Wednesday Oct. 31st

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

Mostly non-Thalia this week.

Arnis

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet


Visit PSB.


Justin

 

 

 

Qing

1. QA candidate interview
2. looked at the Alfresco source code on authentication and ticket handling
3. use profiles to further mavenize the build (now build is fully automated
and completely one-step)

1. visited the PSB users with Janet
2. wrap up the mavenizing and update the doc

 

Robin


 

 

Notes:

* No scrum today - everyone has other meetings

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Tuesday, October 30 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

--

--

Mostly non-Thalia this week.

Arnis

 

 

 

Hunter

Reverted thalia-dev and thalia-test to Alf 2.0.1 from the (dysfunctional) Alf 2.1E install, provisioned gybe.mit.edu for temporary use as a Thalia IME server for testing against al-dente/al-fresco.

Largely non-Thalia work, but may work on the backup/restore script and a deploy/cfg mgmt system.

Waiting on Alfresco to release 2.1.1 and Jody in ASST to get a SAN to me.

Janet

interview prep

interview QA intern


Justin

  1. Rated sprint 3 issues in Jira
  2. Started writing thoughts on nav redesign
  1. Finish writing thoughts on nav redesign

 

Qing

1. thalia meeting
2. rollback some changes as we rolled back 2.1E
3. build Alfresco from source and tested the bug fix on tickets (It is fixed)

1. QA interview
2. wrap up the thumbnail access control work

 

Robin

  1. sprint planning # Finish writing up thoughts on navigator redesign meeting
  2. organized my tasks for the upcoming sprint
  3. heard back from OL with (hopefully) a solution to impediment on  extended metadata changes
  1.  Implement OL solution, work on tagging changes
  2. Interview QA intern

 

Notes:


 Monday, October 29 - Sprint planning meeting, no Scrum today


Friday, October 26

 

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

Tweaked Continuum a bit; seems to be doing everything it should, though it's conservative (possibly overconservative) about sending email.

Maybe some performance testing vs. 2.1.

The thalia-test group is most appropriate for testing but is not yet running Alfresco 2.1.

Arnis

 

 

 

Hunter

infrastructure meeting w/Jody
looking at 2.1 Enterprise installation on systems. Clustering does not work, period.

 

 

Janet

--
infrastructure meeting w/Jody

Release sprint 1? Need to confirm that it happens today; I thought the code freeze was end of day (weekend)
read through release process on wiki
Stellar/Thalia future meeting


Justin

made a thumbnail graphic

 

 

Qing

add calls to check permission before getting thumbnail/medium/large
added code to handle alfresco sessions (use session id to reuse alfresco tomcat sesssions instead of opening a session with every alfresco call)
tested the new code on thalia-dev

look at alfresco's source code to understand more how they manage their ticket lifetime and make sure that we are handling the ticket cache accordingly
test to make sure that we are not opening too many alfresco sessions

 

Robin

 

--

out today

Notes:

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Thursday, October 25|| Who || Yesterday || Today || Impediments ||

Andrew

Finished continuum server setup, though infinite tweaks surely remain to be done.

Run performance benchmark against current backend with Alfresco 2.1.

Lots of other work.

Arnis

 

 

 

Hunter

In Training (now know what we need for MySQL clustering)

Testing out 2.1.1 with a Thalia Frontend.  Setup 2.1E for install on thalia-test for QA next week.  Both will go into tomorrow.

Time.  Inordinate number of meetings.  Alfresco.

Janet

started reorganizing wiki
asked Michael Dutton to push back useability to mid- to late-January; suggested we recruit testers from our IAP session

tbd - haven't planned the day yet


Justin

Finished all remaining sprint 2 issues

Spending rest of week on Kerberos tasks

 

Qing

changed the thumbnail/medium/large permission and modified the url for getting thumbnail
medium/large (it goes through IME instead of talking directory to Alfresco). Tested the code
thalia-dev and are happy with the performance
However, if the user doesn't have permission to thumbnail/medium/large and tries to get it,
Alfresco stupidly opens the login screen instead of giving the access denied error. Will have
to add an addiotnal call to alfresco to check permission (will impact the performace)

add calls to check permission before getting thumbnail/medium/large
close ticket when purged from cache

 

Robin

Communicated with Open Laszlo about the impediment to tagging changes

Upload user confusion bug -- hide the progress bar except for when its uploading, and make it clear that user needs to click the "upload" button when done.

 

Wednesday, October 24 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

almost nil

Finish Continuum work.

1) The only site with meaningful Continuum documentation was being DoS'd all day yesterday.  2)  A bunch of non-Thalia quasi-operational stuff came up that needed most of my time. 3) Some much-delayed dental work has become undelayable and will consume an as-yet-unknown portion of my day.

Arnis

 

 

 

Hunter

at training

at training

 

Janet

scheduled intern interview

may look at website
may start reorganizing wiki

at class

Justin

  1. Finished up as much load time work as I feel should be done in this sprint
  1. Clear up remaining sprint 2 tasks (deleting images from slideshow, ss player in separate window, button highlighting in ss player)

 

Qing

tickets are cached now and the app seems to function ok

change the thumbnail permission and modify the item servlet to get thumbnail, large, and medium images. Make sure the performance is acceptable

 

Robin

  1. Met with SAP, wrote up notes, entered tasks into JIRA
  2. Worked more on referencing problem with datasets within a class
  1.  Write up and send to Open Laszlo description of problem I'm having; ask them to make it a high-priority incident.
  2. Look through bug list, see what else I might get done for this release.

not feeling well, will be online as much as I can, but likely will be taking naps/breaks

Notes:


Tuesday, 23 October 2007 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

More continuum debugging.  I think I understand how to fix the email and release problems.  (Though mostly not a Thalia day.)

More of the same.

Bleeding-edgeness of continuum now *very* apparent.

Arnis

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

Meet w/Joan about hiring through MITemps 
Send job description for QA intern to team - list how I think s/he could contribute to project, solicit other ideas

Contact intern candidate

Will be at a class during tomorrow's scrum

Justin

good progress reducing thalia swf size, committing changes soon

  1. more on swf size
  2. other remaining tasks

 

Qing

compared several opensource caching solutions and decided to use ehcache (the one Alfresco uses)
removed my own simple caching classes from the code and replace the user cache with ehcache
start to implment ticket cache

continue implemeting ticket cache

 

Robin

worked on extended metadata; made progress, but also hit significant road blocks


 

Notes:



Monday, October 22

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

Learned more about the continuum server and did more setup work on it; it should now be doing everything we want except for the deployment to thalia-dev.

Get auto-deployment working and figure out why the mail that should be going out isn't.

The Continuum documentation is somewhere between bad and nonexistent.  (It's very bleeding-edge; this is not unexpected.)

Arnis

 

 

 

Hunter

Got Alfresco to cluster correctly w/ 2.1.1 and replication and index caching working correctly between al-fresco and al-dente.  The Alf, Inc. suggested method of dropping the new .WAR file in place and restarting fell down and went boom.  Ended up also bringing in a bunch of the new, rewritten, restructured config files to mix with the 'old' ones from 2.1E.  Many things moved from fringe config files to the core ones.  Should have the thaliaAdmin and guestUser accounts with default passwds, if anyone wants to play with them.

Testing al-fresco/al-dente with a Thalia front end.  May not get to set that up until later today, and really working on it until tomorrow night.
Goals: Decide if we want to use 2.1E or 2.1.1 for the release.  Get thalia-test set up on one of them by end of Sprint to begin testing with.  May go w. 2.1E on thalia-test proper and leave 2.1.1 up on al-fresco/al-dente so we can do side-by-side testing, if we want to go that route.

Alfresco.
Time. 
In training class MTuWed.

Janet

In touch w/Leah about site.
Emailed Michael Dutton about rescheduling usability testing.
Talked with Roz about hiring QA intern.
Contacted intern candidate to find out when best to call.

Meet w/Joan about hiring through MITemps 
Send job description for QA intern to team - list how I think s/he could contribute to project, solicit other ideas

Contact QA intern candidate re: interview
Schedule interview

Contacting candidate - our schedules don't overlap well for the next few days.

Justin

  1. created scriptable process for creating our UI art from source PSD files (refamiliarized self with Photoshop actions)
  1. Deleting images from slideshows
  1. Dividing time with Kerberos work

Qing

1. fixed out a bug on tagging code to allow deletion of all tags on an item
2. branched the code and started coding access control changes

continue coding on access control

not sure how caching ticket will work. lots of questions need to be answered, like how to avoid race condition and how to close connection so the alfresco session will not be left open. (the caching code needs to be both fast and robust)

Robin

  1. Sent out tagging spec, updated from our meeting discussion, to QA.
  2. Put in a fix for the auto-scrolling -- this needs testing though.
  1.  Dig into the tagging changes

Have to go get blood drawn at some point, so will be out for an hour and a half or so


Notes:



 Friday, October 19 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

fixed build server problem
looking at 2.1 clustering stuff 

continuing to look at 2.1 clustering

homedir dropped offline yesterday

Arnis

TOS
process improvements

help Brian from Questcon with Mingle
request tracker queues process 
send out release announcement

 

Hunter

2.1 enterprise upgrade, seemed to work
kinda-sorta got a cluster up last night; second server won't allow connections but isn't giving any other errors

little details from upgrade; troubleshooting clustering

Alfresco documentation leaves a lot to be desired, does not help with troubleshooting or configuration, only architecture. Arnis will ask during call; if tech staff available at that time, will join call

Janet

Looked at rough drafts from Leah and Deanna

put together mockups, making it into a cohesive page
follow up with Qing about useability testing
make sure Leah has account on thalia-dev 
talk with Roz about POs for Leah and Deanna

Roz availability - she was working on something more important yesterday

Justin

resizing images
reducing load time

 

no libraries on thalia-dev
Deanna's UI piece came in as one graphic, not as individual piecesneeds to resize

Qing

meetings
resolved bug #237 and #168. new code is online at thalia-dev
went over clustering info for AlFresco, sent email

investigating thumbnail access control problem

 

Robin

not in today

 

 

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Thursday, October 18 

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

Set up Continuum and Thalia autobuilds on new build server.

Continue work on same; email notifications and svn-triggered builds.

Meetings.

Arnis

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

communicated w/Leah about website

communicate w/Leah and Deanna about website if needed

-

Justin

1. More reducing load time and general complexity of UI

1. Continue with load time issue.
2. Delete images from slideshows.

 

Qing

1. resolved bug#s: 231, 178, 118
2. tested thalia IME with the 2.1E SDK aginst a 2.1E repository
3. investigated the thalia-dev Alfresco 2.1 permission problem
4. did some cleaning up in Jira and Mingle

1. work on locking down access to thumbnails
2. thalia meetings

 

Robin


  1. Fixed bug#s: 235, 218, 216,225,230,173,206,162,161,180
  2. Closed other bugs that are no longer issues, or that we will not fix: 30,62,63,88,172,176,195,158,217
  1. Spec for tagging in UI for the meeting today

Not feeling well



Wednesday, 10/16

Who

Yesterday

Today

Impediments

Andrew

Nothing

Deploying build system.

 

Arnis

Made some Jira changes, and started to try the new triage method.  Sent some e-mails and had a hall discussion with folks involved in the MIngle licensing.

Today: will be following up on our TOS issues, and writing up the release e-mail, and seeing if we need to triage the bugs already assigned to "Talia 1.0" in Jira, and get them assigned to sprints.

Working from home in the afternoon.

Hunter

 

 

 

Janet

1. Mailed web site skeleton to Deanna and Leah.

1. Made this page.

 

Justin

1. talked to deanna about getting rid of tabs in the navigator
2. got original UI design files from deanna
3. worked on reducing load time
4. removed some unused files from svn

1. continue fixing bugs

 

Qing

1.meetings
2. fixed bug 228
3. helped with the release at night
4. tested the UserFilter against 2.1 and it is indeed fixed !!!!

1. test the dangling category problem against 2.1
2. use resttest.jsp to test every api against 2.1. If no problem is discovered, we can upgrate to 2.1

 

Robin

1. meetings
2. fixed bug 224
3. did the night-time release, with help from Qing

1) Start with sprint 2 tasks that are bug fixes
2) write up spec for tagging UI changes

 

Notes: Qing is working with Bryan to set up daily conference call.

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