First Draft of Scooby 0.1 Read Me Text

What is Scooby 0.1?

Scooby 0.1 not a usable release. The overall goal is to put in place the major application architecture pieces in order to provide enough of a basis to generate interest and have serious volunteers start contributing to the project. The Scooby project will be released and tightly integrated with the release of Cosmo 0.3.

Goals: - validating the release process - getting something packaged up and put through the process - starting to build a community and get developers involved - can be described as providing something that hackers can "kick the tires" at

Assumptions around goals:

• What do developers need in order to "kick the tires"?
  • to be able to look at a demo
  • to get at the code
  • have access to the libraries and know where to find them
  • have "some" developer documentation
  • to be able to understand what things we have done that are unusual at a technical perspective
  • easy way to setup an environment to work with the code
  • to understand how to get involved, lists, bugzilla etc

Not sure if 'Assumptions around goals/Not explicit goals' should be in read me txt or if it needs to be expanded. This was originally sent to the list for landing page content

Not explicit goals:

• create hype around having an AJAX calendar
• target people who are coming to check scooby at a web app perspective - more interested in calendars or the ecosystem
• we will get some of these people anyhow but we aren't going to reach out to them

Minimum system requirements Scooby is only supporting the following web browsers:

• Safari 2.0.3+ on Mac
• Firefox 1.5.0.1+ Mac & Windows
• IE 6 Windows

Release Tenets

The following are the primary principles by which we prioritized feature work for 0.1.

• "Initial" web based access to calendar data for Chandler users
  • get a first release of Scooby out the door to validate the project and start to build a community
  • don't worry about completeness of functionality or polished UI.
  • an individual can view their calendars in Scooby - talk to Cosmo via CALDAV
  • some level of creating and editing events

Calendar

This release is probably less than a quarter of that plan, and only part of Phase 1, because we want to show people something early. In 0.1, you should be able to:

Editing

• Basic event creation (in-place creation and editing in event detail area)
  • simple events with start and end time
  • all-day events - no stacking
  • multi-day events

• Dragging events and resizing them in the calendar
• Remove events
  • It doesn't delete the event from other calendars it may be on

Display - no editing

• @ time events. You can create these events in the detail view by setting start time = end time but there is no special display lozenge as in Chandler.
• Anytime events display as all day events
• Recurring events will be displayed correctly - edits will not work correctly
• Timezones will display correctly in the detail view, but user cannot change the timezone
• Overlapping events currently display on top of each other.

Navigation

• Week view and navigating back and forth between weeks
• Event detail view

Managing calendars

• Published calendars and Subscriptions as well
• View a single calendar at a time
• Pull-down to switch calendars
• When you run Scooby there is a default calendar created on your behalf. You cannot create new addtional calendars in Scooby. View multiple calendars created using Chandler but only one at a time.
• Events created in Scooby can exist on only one calendar (flagged as open issue and may carry over to 0.2)
  • this one is confusing because I can have 2 chandler calendar that has the same event on more than one calendar
  • assume there will be no affordance to indicate this (what calendar is on)
  • what happens when I modify this event in scooby (on one of the calendars)
• Login, Logout, Manage account
  • Managing accounts will be done through Cosmo UI for 0.1

Time-zones

• There are still some open issues in time-zone issues which will carry over to 0.2
• All events are translated into local time and original timezone information is preserved (ie: if system TZ=PST, if my event is 10:00am EST, it displays as 7:00am PST)
  • Events created in Scooby are in floating time.
• Talking to Cosmo -> CALDAV support
  • view calendars published on cosmo

Known Major Bugs A full list of known issues can be found at: [Link to bugzilla?] https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided

Link to bugzilla "Scooby" project bugs

Troubleshooting

We will be maintaining a troubleshooting page that contains work arounds for known bugs. We encourage members of the community to edit this page directly as they encounter issues.

• Will not have until there is a need for end users as 0.1 is dedicated for develpers we will point them to this page for now
• Scooby Development: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ScoobyDevelopmentHome