Tomboy Dev Meeting for Planning 0.10.0 release

Who

Anyone! Everyone! This is not limited to those scruffy-looking Tomboy hackers. We want to stay on task during the meeting, but seriously, if you'd like to participate, just listen, or whatever, come along!

Where

#tomboy on irc.gnome.org

When?

Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 13:00 PST

People planning to attend (you don't have to add your name here, but if you can, let us know you'll be there):

• BoydTimothy, JohnStowers, AlexGraveley, SandyArmstrong, JohnCarr

Tomboy 0.8 Postmortem

Successes

• Gained an awesome and passionate additional maintainer. Welcome aboard Sandy!
• Got Hack Week time to churn through note synchronization
• Others?

Drawbacks

• Started the note synchronization a bit late in the cycle
• Perhaps didn't focus on bugfixing as much as we should have? Does anyone else feel this way?
• Others?

Improvements

What can we do better this time?

• Begin large features early or figure out a way to have them span multiple releases

Proposed Features for Tomboy 0.10 (GNOME 2.22)

• Most Annoying Bugs
  • Are there important bugs we should focus on before we start focusing on new features?
  • Addins don't always load when configuration has changed. We ought to track that one down.
• Tasks
  • Do we want to keep this feature going?
  • Any ideas on how to synchronize these around in note sync?
  • Tie in with Evolution Data Server?
• Tagging
  • Need to re-enable the UI
  • Briefly discuss in-progress UI enhancement

    • http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380634#c18

      • This is a start at modeling the tagging mechanism Epiphany uses
  • What other features could we build based on tagging?
    • Bulk export operations from the search window based on tags
    • Others? Please suggest here!
• Sync
  • Auto/background sync
  • Tag-based sync rules
  • Conduit integration
  • Online Desktop integration
• Revamp note renaming behavior (make updating referencing notes optional, warn user before doing it)
• Scalability
  • Deal with a large number of notes (to reduce memory consumption and search times)
  • Can we make any changes to the event propagation (eg. during note renames)
  • Perhaps start maintaining some sort of an index of notes in a file/etc.

  • Why load NoteAddins at startup that are useless until note is opened? Let's add a NoteWindowAddin that is only instantiated for open notes.

Other Items

• At what point will Tomboy be considered "1.0"? (Answering this question helps us consider big picture "where are we going with Tomboy?" questions) Alternatively, should we adopt GNOME version numbering?

• Coding standards. Ever since we started using MonoDevelop we have strayed from Tomboy/CodingGuidelines, specifically with regard to tabbing. Should we change the guidelines or our MonoDevelop settings? This is sometimes a pain when processing patches.

  • I'd recommend we just adopt http://www.mono-project.com/Coding_Guidelines entirely (i.e., don't have any exceptions to the rule like we currently do). Does anyone want to volunteer to clean up the code? -BoydTimothy

Schedule Preview

The complete GNOME 2.22 schedule can be found here: TwoPointTwentyone

Some of the important dates are:

• Oct 29, 2007: GNOME 2.21.1 Tarballs Due (First unstable release)

• Dec 17, 2007: GNOME 2.21.4 Tarballs Due (String Change Announcement Period Begins)

• Jan 07, 2008: API/ABI Freeze

• Jan 14, 2008: Feature Freeze

• Jan 28, 2008: UI Freeze

• Feb 11, 2008: String Freeze

• Mar 03, 2008: Hard Code Freeze