1.0-Alpha2 Developer Meeting

This dev meeting is going to be about what we will do in alpha2 this meeting took place on March 29, 2008 from 2:00pm-3:00pm EST

IRC log: http://irclogs.psychdesktop.net/%23psychdesktop.2008-03-29.log.html#t2008-03-29T17:44:11

Topics:

• Timeline of when things will get done
  • The new brand is the highest priority. Once Steven finishes the site design and logo psychcf will get it working with the new website code in the subversion repo
• File sharing, planning the VFS, etc.
  • We've decided that we're going to build the base VFS system now, intergrate it with shared files, and expand on it in 2.0 with an FTP/webDAV module
• We need to dojo-ize our APIs more. http://dojotoolkit.org/developer/StyleGuide
  • api.fs is a perfect example of what I'm talking about
• The upcoming rebrand/name change
  • Get this done soon so we can do a marketing push soon, and loose less links
• Changes to crosstalk to make it more developer friendly
  • Restructure it so it's similar to cometd
• Planning api.Mail, what libraries to use, etc.
  • We'll use the zend framework's mail library
• What to do about app loading times (use some sort of javascript compressor?)
  • Use a loading indicator to make the wait seem shorter, also possibly remove tabs, comments and newlines (but not in strings)
  • Possibly cache the compressed app, clearing it when a change is made to it

Notes:

• we need nightly builds
• remove OSX theme, make a theme-package system, put OSX as an addon theme to steer clear of copyright infringement
• Loading indicator w/ throber the same way the netmonitor applet works