Email Project Development Schedule
This schedule is, since we have no developers hired, just one step above a guess.
| Person | 2003Q3 | Q42003 | 2004Q1 | 2004Q2 | 2004Q3 ALPHA | 2004Q4 BETA | 2005Q1 | 2005Q2 |
| Dev#1 | integration of POP, SMTP, and message parsing libraries with exceptionally stupid 2-pane display: no sorting, no searching, no config, no prefs | integration of IMAP libraries and very basic stupid sending UI | data compositing, richer browsing UI: 3-panel display (i.e. clever query handling), TableOutline? integration, basic threading, task management | UI automation/prioritization features backend (e.g. filters, auto-responding), templates, advanced threading | performance/bugs | performance/bugs | secure filtering | performance/bugs |
| Dev#2 | X | X | mimimal preferences backend, richer reading UI: pretty headers, quoted-printable, format=flowed, MIME display, MIME handlers, attachment handling | richer sending UI: integrating HTML work (w/HTML person), attachments, integrating sending with Contacts (including auto-completion) | performance/bugs | performance/bugs | stuff we forgot | X |
| Dev#3 | X | X | X | rich preferences, identity/persona management, spellchecking, add sender to address book | performance/bugs | performance/bugs | graceful disconnected mode for IMAP | performance/bugs |
| Dev#4 | X | X | X | automation UI, cleanup | X | X | X | X |
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DuckySherwood - 08 Aug 2003