The Chandler Project Blog

OSAF today released, an early, but “experimentally usable” version of its open source application, Chandler. Chandler is a Personal Information Management (PIM) client application with innovative design and ambitious plans for sharing, extensibility and cross-platform support.

There is a wealth of information about the application and this particular release at the Chandler 0.6 Home Page

OSAF is looking for a software developer to participate in the design and implementation of its desktop application, codenamed Chandler. You will have ownership of the design and implementation of complete sections of the application.

OSAF is also seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer for the QA and Release team. This job requires working with QA, Release and Development teams to investigate, report and track defects, and expand the test framework and automated test suites.

You can see details for these and other positions we have open on our OSAF Employment page.

OSAF is looking for an experienced web application developer to help build a sophisticated internet calendar application. If you are an old pro with tools and frameworks like Struts, Tiles, JSP, Spring, Acegi Security, and Hibernate, and have implemented an internet protocol client from scratch, we want to talk to you.

You can see details for this and other positions we have open on our OSAF Employment page.

The “43 Folders” guy has written an article: The inbox makeover for the Mac audience, explaining a David Allen approach to dealing with e-mail — organizing by action instead of topic — the same way Chandler intends to facilitate e-mail processing.

OSAF is looking for a creative Web-savvy designer to contribute a consistent, professional look-and-feel and usable interactions to a WebUI for calendar access and sharing. The role necessarily involves graphic design and HTML/CSS implementation, but also includes scope for growth into product planning and/or project management.

You can see details for this and other positions we have open on our OSAF Employment page.

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Mike Taylor to everyone —

There is a subtle quirk in how the auto-link and the markdown plugins
are interacting: if you have a url at the *very end* of a paragraph,
the link will get mangled and the presentation of the wp page gets all
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To work around this quirk you just need to place any character after
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Highlights

• Apps work due: Minical cleanup, side bar, attribute editor, calendar cleanup and bug 2857.
• Services work due: Email as service, POP3 support, STARTLS, merging
  shared items, recurrence model, cert store.
• Dev platform work due: Schema API framework, architecture/spec work,
  perf improvements.
• Build work due: wxWidgets and Python upgrade, subversion switchover.

Design Team (http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/DesignGroup)

Progress: Mimi and others are updating specs: major revision of Sharing spec, first pass of Sidebar spec done, draft of Timezone sent to dev for review.

Plans: Working on test data mapping to personas. Lisa to do new
revision of iCalendar spec.

Personnel: Sheila is OOF this week.

Applications (http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/ApplicationProject)

Progress: Many bug fixes checked in: in drag and drop, minical, sidebar, colheader, default font, others.

Plans: Drag and drop enhancements next week.

Personnel: Alec on paternity leave.

Services (http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/ServicesWorkingGroup)

Progress: Filtered shares checkin. Certificate Store spec written. Mail code minor cleanups.

Plans: Recurrence spec revision imminent. Brian finishing tests andcommitting changes to Twisted. I18n architecture planning with Katie. Code review of 0.5.03 email work. Zanshin integration checked in.

Personal: Lisa OOF next week at CalConnect.

Developer Platform and Repository (http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/DeveloperPlatformProject)

Progress: Early schema API and parcel loading integration work in place. ICU wrapping work under review — replacing mx.DateTime. Cert store work checked in.

Plans: Item Collection spec complete for 0.5.03. Work on unit tests running in single process (e.g. TestRunner).

Server (Cosmo and Scooby) (http://cvs.osafoundation.org/viewcvs.cgi/cosmo/src/docs/TODO.txt?rev=1.3)

Progress: Continuing to screen Web developer applications. Jackrabbit contributions. Account signup page checked in. Cosmo 0.2 spec revision.

Plans: Present Cosmo/Scooby plans to OSAF board. Gather new Web
developer resumes and screen good candidates. More work on account management and passwords.

QA (http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AparnaKadakia20050524)

Progress: Verified D conference demo branch. Anthony Franco started this week. Tested checkpoint build 20050323 and filed bugs.

Plans: More work on performance testing data set with Katie.

Build (http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/BuildProject)

Progress: Subversion move planning and preparation complete. Import upgrades complete (OpenSSL and M2Crypto). Obsolete file cleanup by Heikki.

Plans: Subversion move. Finish Cosmo automated builds. Hook up Silk test reports to tinderbox.

IT

no info this week

Community/Communications

Progress: D conference demo went smoothly

Overviews created by Lisa Dusseault and also posted on the dev maillist (http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/dev/).

Highlights

• Apps work due: Minical cleanup, side bar, attribute editor, calendar
  cleanup and bug 2857.
• Services work due: Email as service, POP3 support, STARTLS, merging
  shared items, recurrence model, cert store.
• Dev platform work due: Schema API framework, architecture/spec work,
  perf improvements.
• Build work due: wxWidgets and Python upgrade, subversion switchover.

Design Team
(http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/DesignGroup)

Progress: Mimi and others are updating specs (Sharing, sidebar,
timezone (Lisa)). Sheila and Chao presented at WAC meeting last week. Item deletion and removal spec drafted.

Plans: Work with Katie on platform extensibility stuff.

Personnel: Sheila is OOF this week and next.

Applications
(http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/ApplicationProject)

Progress: More work on Demo D for Mitch. Schedule filled out to 3 milestones (approx 3+ months). Various wx fixes. WxPython upgrade integration/cleanup work. Sidebar button toggle states work.

Plans: Track progress against 0.5.03. Finish wxImage support for hue
rotation. Another UI pass by Jed. wxMac toolbar rewrite. Attribute editor work. Drag and drop fixes.

Personnel: Alec taking care of baby Holden.

Services
(http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/ServicesWorkingGroup)

Progress: Accounts dialog: support for POP and other changes checked in. Email account testing fixed. Fix bug 2834 on SSL. Demo Branch sharing patches.

Plans: Brian to schedule major code reviews of recent email work. Brian demoing email functionality at staff meeting.

Personal: BrianK several vacation days this past week.

Developer Platform and Repository
(http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/DeveloperPlatformProject)

Progress: Item Collection spec still in progress. Katie is starting to manage recurrence modeling architecture/API decisions.

Plans: Planning on wrapping ICU for i18n work. Item Collection spec complete for 0.5.03.

Server (Cosmo and Scooby)
(http://cvs.osafoundation.org/viewcvs.cgi/cosmo/src/docs/TODO.txt?rev=1.3)

Progress: Released Cosmo 0.1. Apache license applied to all files. Scooby 2-year planning underway. Revised Web developer job description and reposted. Cosmo 0.2 spec updated. Changes made to welcome page and username handling. “Spring” wrapper for JCR API (see Spring project, see JCR project) checked in as external component to cosmo.

Plans: Present Cosmo/Scooby plans to OSAF board. Gather new Web developer resumes and screen good candidates. More work on account management and passwords.

QA
(http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AparnaKadakia20050517)

Plans: Verifying D conference demo branch and changes. Planning for intern arrival starting Monday. Verify resolved bugs.

Build (http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Chandler/BuildProject)

Progress: Finished Python upgrade. Finished moving build stuff from oahu to paniola.

Plans: Finish Cosmo automated builds. Finish Tiger tinderbox.

Subversion move planning. Debug broken build script.

IT:

Progress: More physical security false alarms dealt with and training
given.

Plans: More memory to prop up email servers. New machine orders to think about.

Community/Communications:

Progress: WAC update covered Cosmo and Chandler progress.

Plans: Script for D conference demo for Mitch to give.

Overviews created by Lisa Dusseault and also posted on the dev maillist (http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/dev/).

So what exactly is the architectural concept for Scooby?