The following is a design proposal for scheduling the dashboard features throughout the course of the 0.7 release.

Phase #1

• Goals
  • basic table support

• Features
  • sort
  • search
  • improved header
  • fix a number of general table bugs

Phase #2

• Goals
  • introduce triage status, ticklers and fixing the stamping cols

• Features
  • fix problems - who/what displays in what column
  • stamping & triage status columns - no clickable icons
  • mechanism to change triage status in the detail view
  • ticklers
    • alarms for any items * select a custom alarm date
  • dnd emails into the dashboard
  • fix a few bugs to support above features
  • basic sections #1
    • always appear - unless you sort by a column that doesn't section
    • section on triage status only - maybe date if we have time
    • expand collapse
    • drag and drop between sections

Phase #3

• Goals
  • add some new widgets and labelling

• Features
  • clickable widgets for changing triage status (summary table, detail view)
  • improved markup bar
  • user editable tags - ui in detail view
  • solve sidebar bi-directionality issues
    • right context menu in det view label field creates a collection in the sidebar
    • dragging the text in the det view label field to the sidebar to create a collection
  • explicit ordering
  • basic sections #2
    • sections appear for more columns
    • drag and drop to reorder sections
    • empty sections appear
    • show/hide sections

Phase #4

• Goals
  • advanced features so users can customize the dashboard

• Features
  • variable height rows in the summary table
  • custom and reordering columns
  • experimental sections
  • user-defined attributes
  • clusters of items (tasks) using sections