Second Status Update

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Status Update #2 -- March 11, 2003

Mitchell led a discussion of increasing OSAF staff interaction with 
community members following the upcoming 0.1 release.  I would like to 
jump-start this with some particular activities.  One possible example 
could be to arrange some chat sessions on specific topics related to the 
0.1 Release 
(http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/ZeroPointOneRelease) which 
would be hosted by relevant OSAF staff members.  I'll let you know as we 
get further along here.  

OSAF has two new staff members.  Ducky Sherwood joined us to work on the 
email portion of Chandler.  She's done with the initial list of possible 
email features 
(http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/EmailRequirements).  She is 
now working from this document to create a requirements document and 
roadmap for Chandler's email parcel. Ducky will also assist with 
community-related activities.  I'm excited by this, since Ducky has 
greater visibility into the technical aspects of Chandler than I do and 
will be able to provide an additional level of communication. As time 
permits, Ducky is also investigating code documentation packages like 
epydoc and HappyDoc for possible OSAF use.  She's gotten some great 
feedback from the questions she posted to the mailing list, including a 
pointer to a great comparative review at 
http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/relatedprojects.html.

Ducky was OSAF's newest member for only a very brief period, since 
Michael Toy joined us on Monday, 3/10 as our development manager.

Other staff members continue with much the same focus as before:  
product planning, coding for the 0.1 Release, and infrastructure work.  
With regard to the upcoming 0.1 release, remember that its look and feel 
is a place-holder only.  We'll focus on this after we have some basic 
functionality to work with and a UI designer focused on Chandler.  

Katie's continuing her work on developing calendar requirements.  On the 
implementation side she's been working on the "month" view, a 7-day 
columnar view, dragging and dropping calendar events, and basic 
navigation.   Meanwhile John's been working on the "canvas" widget that 
the calendar parcel needs.  Andy's been working on implementing basic 
functionality for the contacts parcel, including a 3-pane view for 
contact info, different layouts for different types of contacts (e.g., 
personal vs. business), query display, and adding and deleting contact 
methods.  Integration between these parcels and the viewer parcel 
framework is working.

In the UI realm, parcels can now create their own menus, in addition to 
parcel-independent menus.  Rudimentary sidebar functionality is in the 
works. We want to be sure that Chandler is localizable, so Jed has 
figured out how to get xrc internationalization working in Chandler and 
we're testing out string substitution functionality.

Morgen has our HardHat build system up and running smoothly. We now have 
automated builds for all 3 platforms, including release and debug 
versions. Build process now runs and reports results of 
Chandler-specific unit tests. We also have processes to create tarballs 
of both binaries and source code for all 3 platforms, although there is 
no installer yet.  

Aleks is working on a  security infrastructure.  He's looking at 
detailed scenarios of how data sharing/repository replication will work 
in preparation for how crypto fits into it.  He's also arranging a 
Chandler BOF at the upcoming PyCon in D.C. later this month.

Lou is working on XML parsing and data transfer functions for RAP.  He 
is currently shifting over to use RoadRunner over Beepcore-c for better 
stability.

Mitchell

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