With so many changes around the restructuring we thought it would be helpful to start blogging about our project status on a regular basis so people get a sense of the ongoing activities.

While we work the strategic next steps, our new team will focus on getting a release out for both the desktop and server.

• Chandler Desktop 0.7.4 will be released in the next week or so. Some highlights…

  • We have addressed a number of sharing and recurrence bugs found through usage.
  • We have added a new German localization.
  • The recorded scripts branch was integrated, which is more of a development item.

• Cosmo Server 0.12 will also be released this week. We fixed a few bugs found during hub usage and addressed a number of security bugs.

A more detailed summary will be sent out with each release announcement.

Over the next several weeks, we will be spending most of our time working out the details of our long term roadmap and goals. Our smaller team will be coming together for an off-site at the end of January where we will engage in a number of sessions around planning, strategy and marketing. We have been using a shared collection in Chandler to collaborate on a number of different projects and have published a public Chandler Project collection so others can track our progress.

We continue to work closely with our current users and are in the process of scheduling a number of detailed user interviews which will help us refine our marketing message and provide us with more detailed information about usability patterns. We are currently actively working on addressing a number of security and usability issues. We are also looking for ways to reach out to more users and are investigating projects such as building a Thunderbird plug-in which was posted on the blog and the design list recently.

Finally, as with any reorg there is a period of knowledge transfer and redistributing responsibilities such as builds, systems support and testing. We are also taking care of a number of administrative type tasks and logistics such as consolidating some of our mailing lists, meetings and revisiting a number of processes to make more effective use of the smaller team. We now have short daily scrum-style checkins.