Tomboy Dev Meeting for Planning 1.2 release

1. 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!

2. Where

#tomboy on irc.gnome.org

3. When?

October 8, 2009, 12:30 PDT (19:30 UTC)

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

• SandyArmstrong ...?

4. Tomboy 1.0 Postmortem

4.1. Successes

• Completed web sync add-in, now just need to finish Snowy so we can launch Tomboy Online
• Faster startup

• Two brand new add-ins from community contributors (NoteDirectoryWatcher and Underline)

• Lots of bug fixing
• Continued successful support for Windows and Mac users

4.2. Drawbacks

• Still have a lot of bugs in bugzilla, a few of which really need to be addressed (renaming issues, for example)
• Didn't get to automatic background sync
• Didn't launch Tomboy Online in time
• Could still improve on memory usage

4.3. Improvements

What can we do better this time?

• Even better community management
  • Bug/patch days
  • Focus on better response time in bugzilla, especially for patches
• Assign work early, set goals early, better prioritization. Last cycle we had to forgo fixes for a few bugs because it was getting too late.
• Identify work that can happen in parallel

5. Proposed Features for Tomboy 1.2 (GNOME 2.30)

• Most Annoying Bugs
  • Are there important bugs we should focus on before we start focusing on new features?
• Sync
  • Automatic synchronization
  • More work on Snowy, Tomboy Online, and social features integrated right into Tomboy
• Note sharing via Telepathy, maybe even collaborative editing
• Innovative workflow for simple task list management
• Customizable/simplified note UI
• Better OS X experience
• More memory/performance enhancements
• Your ideas?

6. Other Items

• Tomboy and gnome-shell integration brainstorming
• Update Tomboy end-user website
• Can we make it easier for users to find new add-ins? GNOME Do approach has pluses and minuses.
• We should consider rethinking Notebooks and search
• At GUADEC, one person from Collabora mentioned that it would be nice to have a way to hide sensitive notes from the UI (recent notes menu, search, etc) during demos and sharing situations

7. Schedule Preview

The complete GNOME 2.30 schedule can be found here: TwoPointTwentyseven

Some of the important dates are:

• Oct 26, 2009: GNOME 2.29.1 Tarballs Due (First unstable release)

• Jan 11, 2010: GNOME 2.29.5 Tarballs Due (String Change Announcement Period Begins)

• Jan 25, 2010: Feature Freeze

• Feb 08, 2010: UI Freeze

• Feb 22, 2010: String Freeze

• Mar 15, 2010: Hard Code Freeze