draft of developer platform strategy

0.5

• Extending the application
  • Add background tasks
  • Extend content model
  • Add tree of blocks (detail view for a kind)
  • Create a new block (photo summary view)
  • Extend menus and toolbars

• Use shared data in other applications
  • WebDav access to data shared on WebDav server

Caveat: APIs and data formats are in no way frozen -- they will certainly evolve and change.

0.6

• Use chandler to write a web application
  • Chandler can run as a lightweight web server (making use of twisted)
  • Add "servlets" to Chandler

• Tool support
  • use repository viewer to edit repository in a generic way
  • interactive query evaluator

Caveat: APIs and data formats are in no way frozen.

0.7

• Interoperability and data access
  • Repository import/export
  • some form of RPC to repository
  • Schema evolution
  • Data migration upgrade tool

Kibble

• Parcel management and deployment
  • Download and install
  • Upgrade
  • Uninstall
  • (OSGi?)

Beyond Kibble

• Schema Editor