Hi Folks,

After long hard work, last week Bryan Stearns got the recurrence-triage
branch passing all tests and merged into the main codebase today.  Yay!

There are a variety of triage-related behavior changes in Chandler as of
r13478.  A surely-not-exhaustive list of features:

Auto-triage
===========

Imported and new items are auto-triaged.  This means if you create an
event using quick entry by entering:

/event Lunch tomorrow with Dorothy and Toto

You'll get an event tomorrow at noon, as usual, but now that event will
be triaged LATER.  It will still be sitting in your NOW section waiting
to be accepted, though, so if you mostly just look at your NOW section
you'll get a chance to confirm that noon was the time you wanted.

Moving events
=============

If you move a DONE event from some time in the past to the future, its
triage status will automatically change from DONE to LATER.

One subtle exception to the above rule is that if you've explicitly
changed the triage status for an item, it won't be auto-triaged to
LATER, it'll stay how you set it.  Similarly, if the event's start time
arrives or a reminder fires for an item, once Chandler automatically
changes the triageStatus to NOW, changing its start time won't change
its triage status again.

Recurrence and triage
=====================

Recurring events continue to show up as several rows in the dashboard
view (one for done, one for later), but there's no longer a permanent,
special row for the first occurrence.

When you add recurrence to an event, the first occurrence stays selected
and in the same section of the dashboard, so the event shouldn't
disappear on you when you add recurrence.

The first occurrence stays in place until the triage button is pressed.
 When triage is pressed, in addition to moving all your items to the
appropriate section (the old behavior for the triage button), the most
recent DONE event and the nearest future LATER event is kept.  Other
occurrences (including the first occurrence) are removed from the table,
to reduce clutter.

The exception to THIS rule is that, if you've made any non-triage
changes to an event, the event will stick around in the table view.

To give a more concrete example, if I make an event using quick entry:

/event Examined the yellow brick road last month

I'll have a DONE event starting last month that shows up in the NOW
section.  Now, if I add weekly recurrence, I'll see three events:

NOW section:
last month, DONE
LATER section:
later this week, LATER
DONE section:
last week, DONE

If I press the triage button, last month's DONE event goes away.  But if
first, I change the title of the first event to "Yellow brick road
examination cancelled due to rain", after triage is pressed, last
month's event will move to the DONE section, instead of disappearing.

Give it a try!

Sincerely,
Jeffrey
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