I created a wiki page for coordinating information about sprints this week:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/JanuarySprints2006
List the project you are planning on working on, link to relevant useful
information for your project, link to notes on insights you had while
sprinting, etc.
Cheers,
Katie
Philippe Bossut wrote:
I plan to give a try at writing an hCalendar parcel:
- user give a URL of a page embedding hCalendar events (vevent)
- parcel load and parses the page, creates a collection and creates on
Chandler event for each vevent
- if time allows, defines an asynchronous task to refresh events
regularly (similar to what the feed parcel tutorial does)
That would allow a user to "subscribe" to an event page and see those
events overlayed in Chandler in their own calendar.
hCalendar is specified here:
http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/hCalendar
Further, we can do similar parcels to support other microformats:
http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/MicroFormats
Cheers,
- Philippe
Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
We're going to be doing parcel writing sprints, both here at OSAF next
week, as well as at PyCon in Dallas in late February. We'd love to
have people join us at PyCon.
What does it mean to do a "parcel writing sprint"? Two people pick a
small project, either to create a new extension parcel or extend an
existing one. They sit down and pair program for a few hours (or days)
to work on the project. Alternatively, a developer could work on a
solo project. By having several of these small projects going at the
same time, we have a group of people focusing on similar problems,
raising issues and learning from each other.
Even if you can't join the sprinting at PyCon, now would be a great
time to take 0.6 out for a spin and try writing some extension
parcels. It would be great to get feedback, both on what we've done so
far (including documentation), as well as what would be helpful next
steps to make Chandler more capable in supporting extensions.
If you are looking for inspiration, check out the list of parcels
Morgen put together (parcels that Morgen and others have started):
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ChandlerParcels
Also, a quick brainstorm the other day about parcels people would like
to write or see written yielded this list:
- query and get events from eventful/evdb
- calendar data sync with Apple iSync
- jabber client
- bugzilla interface
- exchange sync (talk directly to outlook exchange)
- backup and restore tool (back up data on collection by collection
basis)
- ups/fedex package tracker (a "parcel" parcel!)
- structural tension charting
- address book
- im presence manager
- irc client
- parcel manager (keep track of what extension parcels are installed)
We may not yet have good infrastructure to support each of these, but
it might be fun and productive to push and see where we fall down.
Cheers,
Katie
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