[Chandler-dev] Alpha3 readme and known bugs

[Sheila Mooney]

I put together the readme notes and known bug list for Alpha3. Let me  
know if you see anything wrong, missing etc.

Sheila

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Users wanting to check out the latest progress on Chandler, can  
download our new milestone, Alpha3 which builds on Alpha2 by  
providing a sneak preview of some of the features we are implementing  
for 0.7.

The work for Alpha3 centers around the following goals:

+ Background sync
+ Intel Mac support
+ Performance improvements

New features in this milestone:

+ Background sync
	+ Synching calendars as well as publish and subscribe operations now  
run in the background. This means you can continue to use the  
application while a sync is running.
	+ By default, calendars sync every hour.
	+ Using the Collection->Synchronization preferences menu you can  
change this option from every 1/2 hour to once a day.
	+ Users will still have the option to force a sync manually.
+ Intel Mac support
	+ Chandler can now be built and run on the Intel Mac platform.
	+ We also provide separate downloads for both the PPC and Intel Mac  
on the downloads page.
+ We have made a number of architecture changes to improve performance
	+ Some operations were loading all items in a collection -- we  
changed this behavior with a series of fixes
	+ The column header renders faster (use of freeze/thaw in the column  
header when changing text)
	+ Optimizations in looking up events for a given week, including use  
of the "sub-index" feature to look for recurring events
+ Further progress on internationalization
	+ Integration with wxWidgets i18n (dialogs are now localizable)
  	+ Unit and functional tests cover non-ascii characters in all  
displayable strings, non-ascii filenames, etc.
	+ i18n egg support
	+ Numerous i18n related bug fixes
+ Other stuff
	+ Search UI in toolbar (assuming this doesn't drop out -- I'm  
surprised not to see it this morning)
	+ Zanshin free-busy query support
	+ Numerous bug fixes reported by users: alpha3 is first dogfoodable  
release since 0.6.1

For a complete list of major known bugs see list at http:// 
wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ZeroPointSevenAlpha3KnownBugs
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