[Chandler-dev] What is next for Chandler desktop?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:39 AM 9/6/2007 -1000, Brian Kirsch wrote:
>The goal as I see it is to gain new sources of funding by the point
>the current funding ceases
>so that Chandler development can continue with some level of both
>community and in-house
>support.

Okay, what new sources of funding?  What will they want in exchange 
for their funds?  Let's surface any assumptions being made about 
this, so that we're on the same page.


>>Specifically, what do you want to see happening *after* the funding
>>window has closed?
>
>Let me rephrase the question:
>
>Specifically what I don't want to happen

But what *do* you want to happen?

The problem with focusing on things we *don't* want to happen, is 
that they don't provide a direction.  It's like querying Google for 
pages that *don't* contain the word "delay", instead of ones that 
*do* contain "productivity" -- the second query will be a lot more 
productive, no pun intended.  :)  Don't-wants are also very difficult 
to prioritize, especially in a group discussion, and they're almost 
never as actionable as do-wants are.


>is that a re-architecture of
>Chandler takes a long
>enough period that the death threshold is reached before major user
>level improvements
>(Contacts, Month View, Printing) are complete.

So let's rephrase this as a do-want: you want Contacts, Month View, 
and Printing to be completed prior to the end of 2008.  Is that correct?


>Yes there are risks either way. That is true. And you are correct
>that Preview's delay was in large part due to the lack or
>architectual changes
>you are proposing.  But there is an element of marketing that is
>coming in to play now. Once we capture users we do not want to lose them
>because the project from a user visible standpoint stalls for a
>period while a re-architecture takes place.

Also rephrasing as a do-want: you want users to feel good about our 
progress, perhaps?  For them to be confident that the features they 
desire will arrive in a timely fashion?  Or something else?