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Chandler 0.1 released
It gives me great pleasure to announce the first release of Chandler, release 0.1! While we are still very early in the design and implementation process, we intend for this 0.1 release to make us a more fully open project. We have made the release available for download, opened up our bug tracking database, and opened our source code repository. We have also spent quite a bit of time in the past few weeks focusing on improving our code and documentation. We are focusing first on architectural issues, not end-user features, yet there are some interesting things to look at in this release. In particular, the outlines of the Chandler peer-to-peer sharing framework are visible. There are also the very crude beginnings of a calendar and contact manager to play with. We haven't begun to focus on a polished user interface, the current user interface is a placeholder. So rest assured that future releases will bring dramatic improvement in this area as well. The 0.1 release does have a fair amount of the framework for writing "viewer parcels" -- plug-ins that can be added to Chandler extremely easily. In fact, two of our sample viewer parcels were written by OSAF team members who were not hired as programmers and who were completely unfamiliar with the tools. In future releases, we will improve both the architectural framework and user experience significantly, with a short-term emphasis on novel features over robustness or well-understood features. We need to incorporate our original features as early as possible so that we can explore their implications, and we need to make it as easy as possible to implement those original features. 0.1 Release info: (links to all end user and developer documents) at http://www.osafoundation.org/Rel_0.1_Info.htm Downloads: http://downloads.osafoundation.org/chandler/releases/0.1/ Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org CVS: http://cvs.osafoundation.org _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Announce" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/announce (Log in to post comments)
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