[chandler-users] First impressions

[Brian Kirsch]

Hi Yorgos,
See comments in-line.

-Brian


Brian Kirsch
Internationalization Architect / Mail Service Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation
543 Howard Street 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
http://www.osafoundation.org




On Oct 31, 2007, at 11:39 PM, Yorgos Pagles wrote:

> Hi,
> a little background first: I work as a software engineer in a company
> that has clients all around the world. My collaboration activities
> include cooperating with small development teams, preparing
> specifications, providing feedback to clients.
>
> After a few weeks of heavy usage of Chandler Preview (I have also used
> previous releases but I don't think that they count) as mainly a task
> list I am delighted with the whole triage idea as it is a very simple
> and yet effective and powerful way of keeping focused in the most
> important of the gazillions of taks that require my attention without
> worrying that I will neglect the not so urgent ones. Stamping my tasks
> as calendar events comes in handy as a specific task can include
> setting up a meeting etc.
>
> What I miss:
> * Using Chandler desktop through proxies. I have followed the
> respective issue in bugzilla and I have seen that it is resolved.
> There is a little catch there: I will have to use the proxy to get to
> my account in the hub but not use the proxy to get my company email
> (if it is hopefully needed, see my next point).
> * Getting email from my company account (exchange server and also pop
> access) and marking them as tasks. The part in the email spec that
> describes setting up a local IMAP server and from my email client drop
> any received with POP email I need in the specified folders of the
> IMAP account is just fine, but I don't know what's the progress on
> this issue.

This feature was slated for Preview. However, it was found that
there were a number of bugs in the Twisted IMAP4 server which
Chandler was leveraging to implement the Chandler Folders
with POP strategy. Ah such it was deemed too much time and
effort to attempt to fix the Twisted issues given the tight
Preview dead line.

At this point I don't believe Chandler Folders over POP
is still on the development schedule.

Although, we are currently crafting our Chandler 1.0 email strategy.




> * The starter project "integration with bugzilla" you have in your
> wish list would be for me "integration with issue trackers" as we
> don't use bugzilla but some other issue tracker. You should know that
> most developers' main collaboration tool is their issue tracker. I
> think that I could help with this one if there are any thoughts /
> previous work available.
>
> These are my first "wish I had them" for Chandler desktop in order of
> importance for my day to day usage of Chandler.
>
> Regards,
> Yorgos
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