Purpose & Goals of the 0.1 Release

<Current OSAF Thinking>

Purpose

The purpose of releasing version 0.1 Chandler source code is to:

• provide an architectural and technical overview of Chandler
• give the community a chance to review:
  • a skeletal framework and
  • tentative APIs
• provide more details about future Chandler plans
• include a few cool features to give a glimpse of what is possible
• show that OSAF is "for real"

Goals

OSAF hopes that the Release 0.1 will be complete enough and documented well enough for:

• interested, proficient developers to follow instructions and build the release without asking us for further assistance
• users to try out a very initial skeleton of Chandler without further assistance from us
• developers to gain a better understanding of:
  • the Chandler architecture, framework and APIs
  • select components of Chandler
• "throw away" code to be at a minimum and well-documented as such
• developers to contribute to intelligent architectural discussions, possibly highlighting architectural flaws
• brave, risk-loving developers to try writing sample parcels and point out problems that need to be addressed
• TAR/Zip files of binary and source code for all components, including Python and wxwindows, on Linux, Mac and Windows
• release by the end of April

What's not planned -- topics we'll address, but not in the 0.1 release

Release 0.1 is not intended to:

• demonstrate a complete feature set
• demonstrate a final UI
• demonstrate security mechanisms
• demonstrate a final database schema
• be ready for end-user deployment

<End Current OSAF Thinking>

-- MitchellBaker - 25 Feb 2003