notes on planning for .5

(just organizing my thoughts here, will eventually be tracked elsewhere)

ZeroPointFivePlanning

notes on developer dogfood

• older thoughts
  • KatieParlante20040420 (includes scenarios)
  • KatieParlante20040426
  • ZeroPointFourExtensibilityProposal

• Sample apps/scenarios
  • RSS Reader (Zaobao)
  • project management/workflow
  • adding Voip
  • mortage maker
  • book club
  • wedding planning
  • mp3 application
  • integrate with apple address book data

• smaller units
  • add a content item type (book, special version of task, mp3, rss event, etc.)
    • in parcel xml
    • from ui
  • add fields to an existing content item type
    • in parcel xml (require subkind?)
    • from ui
  • add a "scheduled task"
    • fetching rss items and putting them into the repository
  • add a struct and/or type that repository recognizes?
  • add a voip service that others can use

• work to do
  • implement capplets proposal (or some variant thereof)
    • implement addressing changes
    • implement changes where parcel read only data is copied to the 'soup'
    • move test views into test parcel/capplet
    • move zaobao to separate parcel/capplet
    • separate pim and core parcel/capplets?
    • scheduled tasks?
    • changes to chrome to support capplets?
  • refactor/modularize current codebase
  • framework/services infrastructure
  • cpia's attribute editor/renderers
    • improve attribute editor/renderers so that they handle existing types out of the box
    • get attribute editor/renderers to the point that people can add new ones
    • integrate attribute editor/renderers with detail view

-- KatieCappsParlante - 13 Oct 2004