Wave In A Box Update - 21 November 2010

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Thought I would post this here for wider reading.

It's been a full 3 weeks since the last progress report, so this one is long and it includes the outcomes of the Wave Protocol Summit. To give better insight into what is going on, I have included a brief (incomplete) work-in-progress section at the end.

Community:

• Wave Protocol Summit Nov 8-12! Links to videos here: https://wave.google.com/wave/waveref/googlewave.com/w+rwFyiw47A
• Roadmap: http://www.waveprotocol.org/wiab-roadmap
• Wave in a Box Apache incubator project proposal: http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/thread/5363c635e8e950fc
• Coding sessions produced cool demos, code, specs, and new committers

Docs, etc:

• HTTP-based federation protocol spec draft: http://www.waveprotocol.org/protocol/design-proposals/http-based-federation-protocol
• Wave in a Box setup instructions: http://www.waveprotocol.org/wave-in-a-box
• Client Development Environment Set Up: http://www.waveprotocol.org/code/client-development-environment-set-up
• Writing a Doodad tutorial: http://www.waveprotocol.org/code/tutorials/writing-a-doodad

Code:

• Visual enhancement to login and register pages
• Filter events from robot's own deltas
• First pass of file-based delta store
• Wave panel improvements: shinies, reply box, click-to-reply blue hover
• Wave panel test harness
• Gadgets hooked up! (still bugs to fix)
• Libraries tests have been refactored in preparation for merging libraries and default repositories
• Socket.IO is hooked up
• File-based certificates store and account store
• DOCUMENT_APPEND_MARKUP robot operation

Work in progress (incomplete):

• Apache incubator proposal submission (Michael MacFadden et al)
• Regularly updated demo instance (Tad Glines)
• User listing, addition and removal (James Purser)
• Merge the libraries, default repositories (Alex North)
• Finish file-based wave persisitence (Soren Lassen)
• Wave panel tutorials, documentation (David Hearnden, David Wang)

Progress report wave: https://wave.google.com/wave/waveref/googlewave.com/w+tYBKatJxA

(The wave now has wave-protocol@googlegroups.com as a participant with full access, so all group members with wave accounts can add their own contributions and work-in-progress.)