Tom Hoffman
2007-03-01 20:23:18 UTC
The SchoolTool and CanDo projects undertook a development sprint
during and after PyCon 2007 in Addison, Texas, from February 25
through March 1.
In attendance: Tom Hoffman, Jeff Elkner, Ian Benson, Ignas
Mikalaj?nas, Jean-Fran?ois Roche, Paul Carduner, Eldar Omuraliev, Alan
Elkner and Linda Huynh.
We had two main threads of work. The first was on resource booking,
with David Welsh acting as customer (remotely) on behalf of the
Arlington Public Schools. The second on LDAP authentication, with Ian
Benson from Sociality acting as customer. Ignas lead the overall
sprint. He and Jean-Fran?ois worked extensively on both threads.
These pieces combined are a substantial step in improving the
usefulness of and ease of deployment of SchoolTool's calendaring
component.
Paul, Eldar, Ignas and Jean-Fran?ois made numerous improvements to
resource booking, as specified by David Welsh and Jason Straw.
Resources were further divided into Location and Equipment types and
given additional metadata. The resource booking form was overhauled.
A more sophisticated interface was created to search for specific
resources (from the resources index). The resource calendars was
changed so that events initiated there behave like events created from
a person's calendar.
Ian, Jean-Fran?ois, Ignas and Jens Vagelpohl (in Germany) got
SchoolTool to authenticate against a remote LDAP server. Ian will be
using SchoolTool to help gather research data in several schools
around the world, using LDAP to share data and logins between
SchoolTool, Apple servers and a Zope 2 application called Guildhall,
so this basic functionality will be tested and expanded on an ongoing
basis and integrated into future SchoolTool releases.
My main task was a thorough weeding of the SchoolTool bug tracker,
which has recently been migrated to Malone on Launchpad. Almost every
bug was reviewed, updated and tagged and assigned if appropriate. The
tags should make it much easier for a developer to find bugs that
match their interests and skills. Only bugs that are actively being
worked on are marked as "In Progress."
Linda wrote on-line help files for SchoolTool.
Overall, the sprint was a success. Ignas in particular did an
excellent job as coach of the sprint.
--Tom
during and after PyCon 2007 in Addison, Texas, from February 25
through March 1.
In attendance: Tom Hoffman, Jeff Elkner, Ian Benson, Ignas
Mikalaj?nas, Jean-Fran?ois Roche, Paul Carduner, Eldar Omuraliev, Alan
Elkner and Linda Huynh.
We had two main threads of work. The first was on resource booking,
with David Welsh acting as customer (remotely) on behalf of the
Arlington Public Schools. The second on LDAP authentication, with Ian
Benson from Sociality acting as customer. Ignas lead the overall
sprint. He and Jean-Fran?ois worked extensively on both threads.
These pieces combined are a substantial step in improving the
usefulness of and ease of deployment of SchoolTool's calendaring
component.
Paul, Eldar, Ignas and Jean-Fran?ois made numerous improvements to
resource booking, as specified by David Welsh and Jason Straw.
Resources were further divided into Location and Equipment types and
given additional metadata. The resource booking form was overhauled.
A more sophisticated interface was created to search for specific
resources (from the resources index). The resource calendars was
changed so that events initiated there behave like events created from
a person's calendar.
Ian, Jean-Fran?ois, Ignas and Jens Vagelpohl (in Germany) got
SchoolTool to authenticate against a remote LDAP server. Ian will be
using SchoolTool to help gather research data in several schools
around the world, using LDAP to share data and logins between
SchoolTool, Apple servers and a Zope 2 application called Guildhall,
so this basic functionality will be tested and expanded on an ongoing
basis and integrated into future SchoolTool releases.
My main task was a thorough weeding of the SchoolTool bug tracker,
which has recently been migrated to Malone on Launchpad. Almost every
bug was reviewed, updated and tagged and assigned if appropriate. The
tags should make it much easier for a developer to find bugs that
match their interests and skills. Only bugs that are actively being
worked on are marked as "In Progress."
Linda wrote on-line help files for SchoolTool.
Overall, the sprint was a success. Ignas in particular did an
excellent job as coach of the sprint.
--Tom