Tomboy Dev Meeting for Planning 0.14.0 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?

Thursday, 23 October 2008, 12:30 PDT (19:30 GMT)

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, JohnCarr, DougJohnston ...?

4. Tomboy 0.12 Postmortem

4.1. Successes

• Sync Fixes
• Tasque Add-in

• Gtk.StatusIcon port

4.2. Drawbacks

• Didn't get printing done
• Didn't get much else done, either :-P

4.3. Improvements

What can we do better this time?

• Better community management
  • Bug/patch days
  • Focus on better response time in bugzilla, especially for patches
• ??

5. Proposed Features for Tomboy 0.14 (GNOME 2.26)

• Most Annoying Bugs
  • Are there important bugs we should focus on before we start focusing on new features?
• Cross-platform release (deployable on Mac OS X and Windows)
  • Need to finish new Printing add-in
  • Sync without FUSE or other Linux-isms
  • Better Mac integration
• Your ideas?

6. Other Items

• Alternative (pluggable) backends (e.g. Sqlite or Wizbit)
• Standardization of Note format
• User testing
• Update Tomboy end-user website

7. Schedule Preview

The complete GNOME 2.26 schedule can be found here: TwoPointTwentyfive

Some of the important dates are:

• Nov 03, 2008: GNOME 2.25.1 Tarballs Due (First unstable release)

• Jan 05, 2009: GNOME 2.25.4 Tarballs Due (String Change Announcement Period Begins)

• Jan 19, 2009: Feature Freeze

• Feb 02, 2009: UI Freeze

• Feb 16, 2009: String Freeze

• Mar 09, 2009: Hard Code Freeze