Chandler Milestone 0.5.03 Report Card

Chandler Milestone 0.5.03 was officially released on June 7, 2005. The following is a summary of new features (visible and non-visible) that were completed, and the status of any "work in progress" items that will span multiple milestones. We have also included a list of known bugs/problems or areas of the app to avoid testing at this point.

Overall Status

• QA is still in process on all 3 platforms and any change in status will be noted if necessary.
• All smoke tests and the demo script have been executed on all 3 platforms successfully.

Visual Features

0.5 Cleanup

• Significant progress on most areas of the 0.5 cleanup list. Since there are many individual small bugs, only the highlights will be listed here. For a more comprehensive summary you can refer to the apps team notes see 0.5.03 Closing Status
• Sidebar:
  • icons for app kind and sharing, updating text based on app area, infrastructure work.
  • NOTE: greyed out collection with not items NOT complete.
• Calendar:
  • integration of wxHeader and visual tweaks for native platform look and feel.
  • many bugs fixed to improve overall calendar view, overlapping events, text, logenze shape, event statuses.
• Mini Calendar: visual tweaks fixed, navigation, improvement to borders
• App Polish: started on chrome cleanup beveling and margins work.
• Drag and drop: fixed many of the drag and drop bugs.
• wxWidgets 2.6.0 integration

Other

• Calendar Features:
  • color assignments per calendar and the ability for the user to modify this.
  • calendar overlays - checkbox widget for activating and deactivating calendars.
  • checkbox reflecting the calendar color is NOT complete.
  • 1st iteration of visual color saturation for selected events, selected calendar, activated calendars.
• Detail view:
  • converted most fields to use Attribute Editors - improvements in look and feel, layout, fonts, editability
  • date/time fields NOT yet updated
• Sharing
  • started work to move to dialog/url based sharing publishing/subscribing.
  • started work on implementation of filtered shares but not yet ready for full qa.
  • review of sharing spec ui and architecture details.
• Overall visual polish - 1st draft/iteration of
  • visual guidelines spec
  • context menus spec.
  • keyboard support, cut/copy/paste specs.

Infrastructure Work

• Internationalization
  • spec in progress
  • created PyICU (a python wrapper for ICU, support libraries for i18n)
  • removed mx.DateTime from the app, replacing it with python datetime and ICU's Calendar
• Performance
  • assorted performance improvements
  • we identified use cases and target hardware
• Schema API
  • introduced a new API to simplify parcel development (allows developers to define schema data in Python instead of xml)
  • integrated API with parcel loader
• Zanshin sharing client library
  • Support for HTTP, WebDAV and CalDAV (planned)
  • initial integration with Chandler done
  • ETag support for efficient synchronization
  • See WebdavService
• Email
  • initial POP Support
  • started to think about IMAP goals
• Certificate Storage
  • Adding certificates including trust levels and evaluating whether to trust a certificate.
  • Mostly complete except for dynamically adding of certs.
• Switchover to subversion

Architecture Work

• Specs/discussions in progress:
  • Item Collection - 1st draft out for review and feedback. This will address a number of the 0.5 cleanup bugs, some performance issues and support 0.6 sidebar goals.
  • Recurrence - use cases and ui details reviewed - still iterating on architecture details (API and data model).
  • Timezones - use cases and implementation details first draft - pending more formal review and iteration.
  • Sharing - ui and architecture reviewed - pending a final review but implementation is already underway.
  • Sidebar - closed on virtuality goals for 0.6 and initial review of sidebar spec - implementation details pending.
  • Trash & deletion - spec reviewed, iterating on proposal for 0.6.

Known Bugs/Regressions

The following is a list of open bugs filed against Milestone 0.5.03

• Regression bugs that are currently open:
  • Bug:3216 - ParcelException^? on loading amazon and flickr parcels
  • Bug:3202 - Minicalendar only bolds certain days
  • Bug:3193 - Change to the title in the calendar view doesn't instantly update the detail view
  • Bug:3179 - Edit mode persists into different event
  • Bug:3149 - Changing length of event does not update "duration" box
  • Bug:3171 - Moving mouse off collection name causes name to disappear

• New bugs found that are currently open:
  • Bug:3225 - Double-click-drag while editing event title causes unexpe.
  • Bug:3224 - Double-click-drag in Calendar view causes Type_Error
  • Bug:3221 - selecting a webDAV server from the drop down list of shar...
  • Bug:3218 - Bad file descriptor error on Chandler startup with the debug build
  • Bug:3214 - No error to the user when testing sharing account fails because sharing server unavailable
  • Bug:3210 - "Position out of range" when double clicking in Messages
  • Bug:3209 - Error message when sharing and not internet-connected
  • Bug:3207 - Inline edit only highlight first line
  • Bug:3206 - "attempt to release mouse, but this window hasn't captured it"
  • Bug:3204 - unable to synchronize a shared collection after adding items
  • Bug:3200 - Testing webDAV account from preferences throws a zanshin connect error
  • Bug:3192 - To field in the detail view disappears once you type and move to the title field