[chandler-users] Re: Automatic Assignments

[Grant Baillie]

On 18 Mar, 2008, at 17:24, Carl Lemp wrote:

> Mimi, in your response to me and Alan, you mentioned that OSAF  
> support volunteers working on features you don't have time to get  
> to.  That sounds interesting!  Do you have any guess as to how many  
> person days/weeks/months it might take for a novice Python  
> programmer to get up to speed on Chandler internals and then  
> implement a simple auto-assignment of items based on collection name  
> and synonyms for collection names?

Hi, Carl

There is a bit of a learning curve (for novice programmers,  
especially) to getting to the point where you can be writing code for  
a Chandler plugin. If you're interested in trying, I'll happily point  
you at the relevant docs (e.g. there's a tutorial that does discuss  
setting up a plugin).

So far as person-week estimates go, I guess it depends on which items  
you want to make auto-assignments on (e.g. the quick entry field?  
incoming mail? any newly created item?). Can you elaborate on what you  
had in mind, especially w.r.t. where you would expect to find  
collection names, and how the synonyms would be set up?

--Grant