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 today released, an early, but “experimentally usable” version of it’s 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

Many of us at OSAF have started trying to use Chandler for basic calendaring needs (we call this dogfooding). One of the first things that we see that makes the experience frustrating is that Chandler is too slow in many basic operations, like creating an event. We want to improve these a lot before we release 0.6.

We have identified 9 use cases that we are most interested in, and a handful of others we are paying some attention to. We are also automatically tracking how we are doing: the Tinderbox system runs these performance tests continuously and reports how we are doing against our targets and how the times change over time as we make changes.

Our latest Chandler milestone, M6, was released on Oct 19th. This is a significant milestone for us since we are now officially “feature complete” and the bug fixing phase is already underway.

A list of the latest completed features and known bugs can be found in the milestone report card.

Milestone Notes

Our latest milestone was released on Sept 8, 2005. The app is coming together nicely and we are on track for our feature complete milestone due out Sept 28th. You can download the lastest milestone at…

(downloads.osafoundation.org/chandler/milestones)

The following report card, summarizes the new features and notable bugs.

(wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/MilestoneNotes0505)

After upgrading to the latest version of libxml2 (2.6.19) I was able to perform a full build of Chandler on FC4. Read the rest of this entry »

See this chandlerdb blog entry for more information.

Almost sounds like old news but worth noticing: we reached the milestone on 06/02 (code wise) and it got the QA rubber stamp yesterday. You can download a build and read the report card. Special thanks to the members of the Apps team who all had deliveries with dead line for that milestone and worked over time to deliver the goods. (NB: this post is also my first OSAF Blog post…)

Did you know Chandler now supports sharing to a webserver over SSL/TLS connection? Look in your account settings for sharing, and check the SSL box and you are all set. Some bugs remain, so please check Bugzilla if something does not work and file new ones if appropriate.

PS. My first ever blog post.

After QA filed some regression bugs and the dev team fixed said bugs they asked me to re-spin the Milestone build and yesterday I did just that.

Visit downloads.osafoundation.org/chandler/releases/latest/ to download and test.