Talk:Chandler (PIM)

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[edit] Vaporware

Is a product that's been in development for four years, and is probably going to be marginally useful in the next year, still considered "vaporware"? Is the category [[Category:Vaporware|Vaporware]] more incendiary and opinionated than neutral? mordel 2005-07-01 00:59:35 (UTC)

This is experimentally usable. OSAF does seem to be taking its own sweet time with it, but it is not vaporware. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Chandler_%28PIM%29&action=edit&section=1

"Vaporware" is an inappropriate term just becaue it's a loaded and slang term. However, I have to say, I've wondered the same thing about Chandler. It feels like there has been so little process in its development considering how many people are working on it. --Calan 03:45, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Updates

I changed the latest release date to reflect the bugfix release on 2/10/6

[edit] Why I'm not using Chandler

I've wanted to use Chandler for a long time and I've been following its (amazingly long) development process. What is stopping me from using it is, in a word, performance. It takes ungodly amounts of time to start up to the point of being unusable. The Chandler people are aware of this but making it highly performant is not an immediate priority. Whenning 09:04, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, it takes forever on my iBook. iCal only takes a moment. I'm sure they've got their hearts in the right place but as yet Chandler isn't nearly usable, last I checked. DaveWF 09:49, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Great, but what does that have to do with the article? Rstandefer 17:59, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Performance optimization is almost always the last thing to be considered in non-mission critical software development. Take Firefox for example. The fact that you have access to code in development doesn't mean that the labels "Preview" or "Pre-release" don't have any meaning.Lunalot 20:50, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dreaming in Code

Chandler is the subject of a book being released January 15th. It's written by the founder of salon.com. Does someone want to add a quick mention in this entry? I expect this page will get quite a bit more traffic as this book nears release. The official site is here: http://www.dreamingincode.com PotatoeMasher 18:23, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

There is a review of that book here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/01/21.html . might be useful. might not too. --203.6.205.22 04:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] License

This page http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ChandlerLicensingPlan says that the license will be Apache 2.0, not GPL. --203.6.205.22 04:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)