Notes about the developer platform work as of the 0.5 release. See DeveloperPlatformProject for current information.

0.5 Summary

We set out to add an RSS parcel (zaobao code) and a photo parcel to Chandler as examples in 0.5. Our goal was to be far enough that we could include this in a presentation at pycon:

• How to organize a typical extension parcel
• How to use WakeUpCaller
• How to extend the content model with a new content Kind
• How to associate a detail view with that content Kind
• How to add new content Kinds to the application filter
• How to write a new summary block and associate it with an application filter
• How to add new ItemCollections to the sidebar (from a parcel)
• How to add menus

We accomplished the zaobao parcel, but fell short of really doing the photo parcel. We did a sprint at PyCon where non-osaf folks created two parcels, a flickr parcel and a delicious parcel.

• Paper for PyCon
• ZaoBao Tutorial^?
• Feedback from the sprint and other sprint details.

Future Tasks

• thumbnail view of photos (using CollectionCanvas)
• repository support for images
• document item layout on webdav server, make accessible to other clients
• full stamping support for new kinds, including application bar and markup bar support
• serverless chandler support
• custom attribute editors

Related Projects

• ParcelFramework -- developers add functionality to Chandler by writing 'parcels'
• RepositoryFramework
• CpiaFramework
• ContentModelProject
• ZaoBao -- a sample of a "extension" which leverages the Chandler platform
• ZaoBaoTutorial -- a tutorial for writing a new extension, using ZaoBao as an example
• HeadlessChandler

Older notes

• DeveloperPlatformProposal
• MorgenSagen20041020
• TedLeung20041020
• KatieParlante20041013