[Chandler-dev] Dogfoodable desktop checkpoint

[Sheila Mooney]

Some time ago, we identified that we would like to be able to point  
our dogfooders to some checkpoint of the desktop before Preview is  
released so they can help us find bugs and try out some of the new  
features. This enables us to get some early feedback that we can act  
on prior to Preview. Although we understand that you can currently  
download any build and start doing this, we would like to identify  
some build that we feel is stable enough and has some core fixes that  
would enable us to actively recruit new users and encourage current  
dogfooders such as Mitch, Esther, Davor and others to upgrade from  
Alpha4.

Mimi, Aparna and I have done a review of all the P1 and P2 bugs in  
bugzilla to isolate some subset that we think we need to fix in order  
to get this checkpoint. We are tagging them as blockers for 0.7. Many  
of these have been fixed over the course of the last week and there  
are currently only 2 bugs.

https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7661
+ This is a recurrence issue and we made it a blocker simply because  
some of our core dogfooders have a lot of recurring events on their  
calendars.
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8790
+ This bug has to do with the conflict management dialog. We targeted  
as a blocker because we will be asking our dogfooders to spend some  
time trying to generate conflicts and test out these workflows and  
fixing this makes it less confusing.
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6545
+ This bug is for changing the OOTB configuration. We need to have  
this in place before we go out and recruit new dogfooders since the  
current setup is confusing. It also probably should have been done  
before we reached feature freeze.

Of course we will continue to use the blocker flag throughout 0.7, I  
just wanted to give people some context on how it's being used right  
at the moment - so we can get to this dogfood checkpoint build.

Cheers,
Sheila