Engineering Open Issues

We're now using this page to link to whitepaper style writeups (issue resolutions). To track current activity: DeveloperPlatformProject.

0.4 Issue Resolutions

• Item clouds: ZeroPointFourItemCloudSummary
• Threading model: ZeroPointFourThreadingSummary
• Sharing: ZeroPointFourSharingSummary
• Chandler Extensibility: ZeroPointFourExtensibilitySummary
• Addressing: ZeroPointFourAddressingSummary
• Architecture Diagram: ZeroPointFourArchitectureDiagram
• Item collections: ZeroPointFourItemCollectionSummary
• Item stamping: ZeroPointFourItemStampingSummary
• Email design: ZeroPointFourEmailSummary

0.5 Issue Resolutions

• Performance (repository perf improvements, etc.)
• Notifications... ZeroPointFiveNotificationSummary
• Server plan for Kibble and Westwood
• Internationalization plan (InternationalizationProject)
• ProfileDirectory
• Collection sharing

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0.6 Open Issues

• Item collection, query, and notification refactoring
• Parcel loading changes (define schema in python not xml)
• Performance (includes footprint issues): PerformanceProject
• Internationalization
• Deletion/memory semantics
  • item clouds instead of delete policy
  • garbage collection?
• Logging improvements: AlternativeLoggingProposal20040908 is to supersede LoggingFramework
• Modularization: refactor parcels to fit layered architecture, look carefully at dependencies

0.7 (work we're putting off for later)

• Unit testing for GUIs
• Attribute redirection, summary table views, content model
• Addressing follow up (ZeroPointFourAddressingSummary)
  • cpia: user data addressing
  • content model: python Item idiom simplification
• Parcel loading improvements: Item collections in parcel xml, cross platform differences for data
• SwitchingVersionControlSystems
• Versioning (content item versioning)
• Dynamic content model (user defined attributes and kinds)
• Installation configurations
• Schema evolution
• Launching multiple instances of chandler (or multiple windows against the same instance)

Ongoing

• ChandlerCodingStyleGuidelines
• PerformanceProject
• DeveloperPlatformProject

Notes

• Suggestions for development environment improvements: DevelopmentEnvironment20040414
• ZeroPointThreeDebrief20040224