Tomboy Dev Meeting for Planning 0.16.0 release

Original Meeting Plan

• Tomboy/DevMeetingZeroPointSixteen/Plan

IRC Log

• Tomboy/DevMeetingZeroPointSixteen/Log

Tomboy 0.16 Planning Meeting Minutes

April 21st, 2009

Attendance: Sandy (sandy), Olivier (plaxx), Andreia (shana), Paul (pcutler), Dave (nightm4re), Ben (Blafasel), Mike (shadymike)

Agenda: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/DevMeetingZeroPointSixteen/Plan

Organizational Updates

• Changelogs will be removed now that the migration to Git is complete
  • Will be kept in releases via automation
• GNOME 2.28 cycle for Tomboy will result in a Tomboy 1.0 release
  • Requirements for 1.0 release include:
    • XML schema
    • Add-in compatibility
    • Cross-platform support
• GNOME Shell
  • Currently no plan for applets within GNOME Shell, with a larger discussion going on about what an applet could / would be
  • With GNOME 3.0 we have a unique opportunity to think about "How do we do Tomboy right" on the desktop and GNOME Shell
  • Developers are encouraged to submit mockups, pacthes and ideas around Tomboy in GNOME 3.0

Tomboy 0.13.x Post Mortem

• Cross platform (Win & Mac support) a big win

  • Windows support has brought in new developers, new users and bug reporters
  • Cross platform support also brought a lot of press on the web

Bug Management

• Tomboy has a lot of bugs filed in GNOME Bugzillas
• Team wants to schedule a bug day
  • Early in the 0.16.x cycle
  • Need to document bug triaging process for Tomboy
  • Test unreviewed patches
  • Bug day to be planned on the mailing list

Sync

• Sync development to focus on:
  • Better conflict resolution for synced items
    • Needs to be easy for users
    • What kind of UI changes should be made in Tomboy to show a conflict? (See Gedit, Anjuta for examples)
    • Potentially make notes read-only instead of blocking the UI
    • UI for users to manually choose note to sync when automatic sync can't happen (Choose correct note)
  • Easier sync setup (Tomboy Online Service)
    • Tomboy Online Service to be developed that offers a service users can use or they can deploy on their own infrastructure (Similar to the Identica / Laconica model)

    • A REST API needs to be developed, more at http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Synchronization/REST

    • Discussion and brainstorming (such as Mozilla Weave as an alternative, Google app engine and encryption) to continue on the mailing list
  • (Advanced users) Migrate from FUSE to gio / gvfs

  • Sync with Tomdroid

Performance

• Memory usage & Startup time

  • Add-ins need clean up
  • Spin off note loading and add-in to seperate threads
  • Mono optimizations

Volunteers

• Sync: Sandy, Shana, Everaldo, Tom
• Bugs: Blafasel, Paul, Sandy, Olivier
• Website: Paul
• File format: Olivier
• Areas needing help:
  • GNOME shell
  • Website
  • OS X development

Schedule Preview

The complete GNOME 2.28 schedule can be found here: TwoPointTwentyseven

Some of the important dates are:

• Apr 29, 2009: GNOME 2.27.1 Tarballs Due (First unstable release)

• Jul 13, 2009: GNOME 2.27.4 Tarballs Due (String Change Announcement Period Begins)

• Jul 27, 2009: Feature Freeze

• Aug 12, 2009: UI Freeze

• Aug 24, 2009: String Freeze

• Sep 14, 2009: Hard Code Freeze