I put together the readme notes and known bug list for Alpha3. Let me know if you see anything wrong, missing etc.
Sheila
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Users wanting to check out the latest progress on Chandler, can download our new milestone, Alpha3 which builds on Alpha2 by providing a sneak preview of some of the features we are implementing for 0.7.
The work for Alpha3 centers around the following goals:
+ Background sync
+ Intel Mac support
+ Performance improvements
New features in this milestone:
+ Background sync
+ Synching calendars as well as publish and subscribe operations now run in the background. This means you can continue to use the application while a sync is running.
+ By default, calendars sync every hour.
+ Using the Collection->Synchronization preferences menu you can change this option from every 1/2 hour to once a day.
+ Users will still have the option to force a sync manually.
+ Intel Mac support
+ Chandler can now be built and run on the Intel Mac platform.
+ We also provide separate downloads for both the PPC and Intel Mac on the downloads page.
+ We have made a number of architecture changes to improve performance
+ Some operations were loading all items in a collection -- we changed this behavior with a series of fixes
+ The column header renders faster (use of freeze/thaw in the column header when changing text)
+ Optimizations in looking up events for a given week, including use of the "sub-index" feature to look for recurring events
+ Further progress on internationalization
+ Integration with wxWidgets i18n (dialogs are now localizable)
+ Unit and functional tests cover non-ascii characters in all displayable strings, non-ascii filenames, etc.
+ i18n egg support
+ Numerous i18n related bug fixes
+ Other stuff
+ Search UI in toolbar (assuming this doesn't drop out -- I'm surprised not to see it this morning)
+ Zanshin free-busy query support
+ Numerous bug fixes reported by users: alpha3 is first dogfoodable release since 0.6.1
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