Maemo.org Sprints/February 09

February 2009 Sprint planning

• Planning meeting organized in the #maemo-meeting IRC channel on Wednesday 2009/02/04 at 14:00 UTC ().
• Right after Maemo.org Sprints/January 09 review.
• Followed by Maemo.org Sprints/March 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.

Completed

Good progress

Just standing

Some help needed!

Really stuck/delayed

Committed	Task	Owner	%	Highlights
2008-09-30	Task:Reducing number of external repositories	Niels	40%	Contacted most owners. Had a lot of positive responses, but need to gently push most of them again..
2008-09-30	Task:Open Source Proof Points	Quim	5%	Nothing done in this sprint, sigh.
2008-11-04	Karma for applications	Hirvinen	0%
2008-11-04	Finalise layout for maemo.org/support	Dave & Tim	DONE	Done. Page will be laid out by Niels or Neithan.
2008-11-04	Task:Texts for maemo.nokia.com	Quim	20%	Drafted the "Open Source" part, but need to complete out of this sprint.
2008-11-04	Define what is needed to get git up on maemo.org	Ferenc	80%	Talk page up at Git for garage, Plans up at Git For Garage. 80% because discussion still takes place. But nothing stopping from moving ahead.
2008-12-03	Task:Implement new maemo.org layout and style	Henri/Niels	20%
2008-12-03	Objective:Community localization	Quim	10%	Objective roadmapped in Harmattan, all details need to be figured out
2008-01-07	Plan to redesign Downloads and add functionality	Niels	30%	Need to pick ideas to commit to in next Sprint
2009-02-04	List Maemo Bugzilla custom code changes	Andre	30%	...in order to port maemo.org Bugzilla to a more recent codebase (long term). See bug report and diff dump for more details.
2009-02-20	Analyze the suitability of lintian for QA	Jeremiah	DONE	I think lintian (the debian policy enforcer) would be an excellent automated tool for maemo if it were "maemoized".

Bugs in product Website

The bugs assigned in the last sprint meeting are marked as HIGH. The bugs proposed for the next sprint are marked as MEDIUM. Only product/component maintainers can change this status. Comment on a bug if you want to push it up. Check also those marked as EASYFIX.

What follows are the bugs that need special attention/progress.

For the record:

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Activity log

Latest activity report goes on top.

Thursday 2009-03-05

• Andre
  • Last days: Fremantle alpha ChangeLog; setting more exact Target Milestones in maemo.org Bugzilla; Scratchbox fun; normal bug business
  • Today: bug 3846; sprint meeting
  • Tomorrow: Holiday

• Ryan
  • Last few days: Alpha SDK stuff (fixed release notes, etc), nominate self for next Council election, maemobox/box.maemo.org discussion, moved Qt into bugzilla.
  • Today: Chairing sprint review.

• Niels
  • Last few days: Worked on Fremantle Extras-devel repository issues. Disussed more Fremantle repo plans Jeremiah and people inside Nokia. Worked on website styling.
  • Today: More Fremantle work and work on new styling.

Monday 2009-03-02

• Jeremiah
  • More maemian hacking
  • worked a little on maemian.garage.maemo.org

Friday 2009-02-27

• Jeremiah
  • dak doc reading, code reading, IRC with dak developer
  • dak wiki @ debian
  • latest dak download from ftp-master.debian.org
  • mail business

Thursday 2009-02-26

• Niels
  • Yesterday: Worked on website styling and a lot of little tasks.
  • Today: Work on website styling. Make plans for Fremantle Extras-devel together with Jeremiah.

• Jeremiah
  • dak reading, comparing to Ubuntu's Launchpad
  • Reading wikis, writing to wikis
  • login to test.maemo.org
  • #maemo

Wednesday 2009-02-25

• Niels
  • Yesterday: Worked on front page and downloads styling. Investigated a performance issue. Attended web meeting.
  • Today: Work on styling. Look into maemo.org summit venue.

• Jeremiah
  • mail, build logs, voting issues, planet maemo

Tuesday 20090-02-24

• Jeremiah
  • Hacking on maemian, set up repo, started coding. Discussion with Niels on Jabber
  • #maemo

Monday 2009-02-23

• Jeremiah
  • Learning more about lintian, signed up for debian's lintian mailinglist
  • downloaded latest version of source code, set up development environment

• Niels
  • Friday: Worked on frontpage and downloads styling. Did some repository related work.
  • Today: Test maemo.org performance issue. Work on frontpage and downloads styling.

• Andre
  • Last days: How to provide a useful ChangeLog for the next release; Sort out Testzilla access/account stuff; triage older bugs; normal bug business...
  • Today: Feature jar; ITT/new bugs; #3846

Saturday 2009-02-21

• Jeremiah
  • Work on #4139

Friday 2009-02-20

• Niels
  • Yesterday: A day where external factors dictated my day ;) Fix RSS feed issues, Security QA discussion. Looked into application karma. Applied various patches for midgard to fix some website bugs. Worked on new styling. Overloaded Jeremiah with info again.
  • Today: Work on front page and Downloads styling.

• Jeremiah
  • Spoke with people on #maemo about versions of tools in maemo sdk, they are starting to show their age according to some. (i.e. debhelper is version 5 in sdk, version 7 in lenny)
  • Downloaded forjx.zip, timeless' package
  • Reading "Maemo Packaging Policy v.023"

Thursday 2009-02-19

• Niels
  • Yesterday: Fixed a few repository and autobuilder issues. Applied some patches to the voting software. Gave Jeremiah access to repository machine and overloaded him with info :) Discussed alternative repository management tools. Worked with bergie on an account issue on maemo.org.
  • Today: Fix feed issue for Council. Work on front page styling.

• Jeremiah
  • Discussion with Kevin Hurewitz at Nokia about lintian and its suitability for maemo.org and Nokia (I would like to create a git or svn repo where we can keep our version of lintian so anyone can work on it.)
  • Dug up some data on creating man pages for Kevin
  • Reading documentation
  • Security / QA discussion this morning with bunch of folks, blogged about it

Wednesday 2009-02-18

• Niels
  • Yesterday: Worked on repository issues and voting software. Tested doc importing. Attended web design meeting and worked on new style.
  • Today: Fix chinook builder and promoter issues (index corruption?). Work on new styling for frontpage.

• Jeremiah
  • Still reading lots of docs
  • Got Mer up and running in VirtualBox, still need to work on getting complete diablo 4.1.2 environment so I can go through building a package
  • Set up my environment on garage.maemo.org
  • Discussed dak with Niels

Tuesday 2009-02-17

• Niels
  • Yesterday: Tried to catch up on email, looked at some repository issues, worked on documentation importing. Installed voting software, upgraded servers and fired off voting mails.
  • Today: Try to finish doc importing, start working on new styling again, overload Jeremiah with even more info ;)

• Jeremiah
  • Slurping up more links and data from Niels
  • Wiki reading / editing
  • Emails, bug reporting regarding email addresses in the changelog file
  • Built diablo sdk following instructions, using apophis on my debian testing chroot

Monday 2009-02-16

• Jeremiah
  • Finishing up some paperwork, i.e. NDA
  • Relishing being a debmaster ;)
  • Getting my development environment up and running so that I can reproduce packaging issues
  • Being debriefed by Niels - lots of good info :)
  • Would like to begin a long term discussion regarding security

• Niels
  • Past week: Holiday
  • Today: Catch up with email backlog, get Jeremiah started. Help Dave out with documentation import and voting.

Thursday 2009-02-12

• Ryan
  • Past days: Helping timeless with improved l10n, bugzilla stuff, working on pushing h-a-m improvements, debmaster stuff etc.
  • Today: Try to get another highlights blog post out the door.
  • Problems: Sprint reporting has gone totally down the toilet. Perhaps we need some sort of incentive. . . .

Wednesday 2009-02-11

• Andre
  • Yesterday: Normal bug business; triaging reports with version < 4.0; internal weekly report
  • Today: Bug 3846 again; discuss testing in Testzilla with Karsten; triage some older reports for relaxation ;-)