Detailed Alpha 5 Plan

The Alpha5 plan continues the work done for Alpha4 on the dashboard and stamping. This is our last release prior to Preview so effectively Alpha5=Chandler 0.7. Assuming most of the backend stamping infrastructure is in place, we will work on the visual affordances necessary to communicate the subtleties around editing and updating individual items. We will also continue on some email work to that enables Chandler users to use their existing email clients and get important emails into Chandler.

We also plan on tackling dump and reload and addressing overall app performance and stability.

Alpha5 Goals

• Experimentally usable shared Dashboard for a desktop user
• Experimentally usable shared calendar for the ecosystem
• Experimentally usable Dashboard for a Hub

Dogfood - Calendar and Dashboard

• More dogfood bugs
  • Dogfood and usability blockers
• Sharing
  • Sharing format implementation work
  • Notifications design work and plan (PPD task) Bug#7420
  • Handling the clickable URL that will work for Chandler and Cosmo, Bug#7288
  • Minimal sharing UI changes
    • Optional sharing of triage status/alarms
    • Get rid of partial shares
• Performance improvements continued, see Bugzilla list
• Wx bugs
• Collection menus cleanup and other general menu stuff, Bug#5236
• Test Egg - (assigned to Katie right now)

Scheduling and Free-busy

• Free-busy
  • Fix a number of free-busy bugs: Bug#6593, Bug#6626

• Edit/Update
  • Getting this to work correctly with all the visual affordances - see Dashboard section
  • Get edit updates working with Cosmo UI users
  • Get edit/updates working with Chandler-Chandler sharers Bug#7363

Dashboard

• Bugs reported by dogfooders for Phase 1
• Set Triage status in the detail view, Bug#6318
• Mark Items as Read, Needs reply and Unread in the Communications status column, Bug#5433
• Display basic communication states: In v. Out v. Neither, Error., Bug#6358
• Display the right attribute in the Who column for the basic states that have been implemented (CR, ED, FR, TO), Bug#6614, Bug#6341
• Display the right attribute in the Date column, Bug#6342
• Display info about created by, edited, updated in the detail view, Bug#7424, Bug#5535
• Dashboard icon rollover effect, Bug#6364, Bug#6473
• Display icons for the remaining communications states in the table: Draft, Updated, Bug#6359
• Purge workflow
  • Toolbar button, Bug#6328
  • Changes in triage status don't automatically change sections, Bug#6329
• Decouple From/To from email address to support updates.
• Email
  • Chandler to Chandler email headers Bug#6715
  • Subscribe to IMAP folders Bug#6717
  • POP (placeholder for work Bkirsch talked about)
  • Investigate html widget for email composition and editing (Robin)
• Quick item entry using search field - integrate Darshana's work Bug#6470
• Finish search features

Architecture/Platform

• Leftover domain model work from Alpha4
• Labeling support (initial work) Bug#7410

Other

• Bug fixes and polish
• Overhaul menus - review all the menus to see if there are any changes (MAYBE) Bug#4617, Bug#5173
• Context menus - the ones we need for Beta (MAYBE) Bug#3047, Bug#4638
• Performance, see Bugzilla list
• Dump and reload - data migration
• Rebranding - colors, look & feel, name change
• Documentation - end user and code (need to define the requirements)

-- SheilaMooney - 26 May 2006