2007-01-15

The meeting on 2007/01/15 was attended by David, Martin, and Thomas. 

• David (and the rest of the Orlando development team) just completed 2-day training on the Scrumdevelopment methodology. The current plan is to start using this methodology as Pentaho moves forward with development efforts.

• David has also been working on Reporting bug fixes, looking at the liblayout library (for style sheet processing information), and working with Gretchen on the foundation of the Pentaho Charting API.

• Thomas has been working on meta-data information
• Thomas has added new element types...
  • Eliminates complicated filter architecture
  • Creates more of a flat structure with attribute collection
  • All properties are primitive types (can be extended if other is required)
  • All element types now have meta data since introspection can not be used
• Thomas will work on XML format for element types (similar to Kettle plugins)
• The Report Designer is not effected by the element change from Thomas. However ...
• Martin can now remove a significant amout of code to use elements instead of filters.
• Martin has resolved some issues this week:
  • Limiting the report preview to 10k rows
  • Charting Support
• Thomas notes a possible bug in RD: RD uses AWT's TextMetrics to determine font size. LibFonts has different information and the report is not rendered correctly due to the difference (problem is with line height). A JIRA case will be opened for this issue.