You may have noticed that the Foxmarks bookmark synchronization extension was posted to the Firefox addons site yesterday. Grats Todd!

What you might not know is that the server where Foxmarks stores your bookmarks is an instance of Cosmo 0.2. This is the first production deployment of Cosmo (that we’re aware of), and we’re pretty excited that it’s holding up.

Granted, Foxmarks doesn’t stress the server anywhere near as much as a calendar shared by Cosmo, but this real world usage has been a huge help in identifying issues related to security, performance, scalability and data migration that we otherwise wouldn’t have had to cope with this early in development.

In fact, we’ve successfully tested Foxmarks and Cosmo with many tens of thousands of users, so I hope to see Foxmarks’ popularity continue to rise. We’ll do our best to keep the server running well and minimize breakage and downtime as we move to subsequent Cosmo releases.

Highlights

• Chandler: PyLucene,PyICU no longer use SWIG. Free/Busy, Scheduling are code complete for 0.7alpha2

• Cosmo: Working on closing out 0.3 release. We have a small number of bugs to fix and the migration tool to finish.

• Scooby: Work on some of the Scooby 0.2 features is already started. Scooby 0.2 officially kicks off on 4/11/06.

• Community/IT : Wiki updated to new code base. More development work on the Scooby and Cosmo landing page sites in preparation for the Scooby 0.1 and Cosmo 0.3 bundle launch.

The detailed report can be found on the wiki here

I’ve started a new personal blog at blog.kapor.com. I will be writing about OSAF, Chandler, and other topics.

Highlights

• Chandler: 0.7 Timezone related changes. Sending and recieving stamped events is now operational. Timezones, hours in a day are now available as menu preferences.

• Cosmo: Working on closing out 0.3 release. We have a small number of bugs to fix and the migration tool to finish (We are targeting the migration tool for Wed of this week)
• Scooby : Working on Scooby 0.2 planning. We now have the first pass for an in/out list and rough estimates for difficulty.