Schedule

The beginnings of a Pachyderm 2.0 development schedule

We need to have a beta deliverable in October of 2004. It was decided on the team leaders call of 5/21/04 that this would be controled release, and the general public would not be invited to use Pachyderm until January of 2005.

Still it is necessary to have a working version of Pachyderm 2.0 in October with some amount of testing. I propose the following loose schedule. As we progress with the design, we will be able to fill in more details.

• Determine Platform (programming language): June 4th
• Design Product
  • First draft of Architecture: May 28th
  • First draft of Database Design: June 4th
  • First draft of Interaction Design (APIs): June 11th
  • All design docs out for review: June 25th
  • Design docs approved: July 2nd
• Code Product
  • First Phase Development: By end of July
    • User account system functional
    • Screen Editor with 1 template functional
    • Asset management allowing direct uploads
  • Second Phase Development: By end of August
    • Screen Editor with 5 more templates functional
    • Admin interface functional
    • User Workspace functional
    • Hooked up to publishing system
  • Third Phase Development: By end of September
    • Screen Editor with all templates functional
    • Catch-up
    • Clean-up
• Test Product: Done October 22nd

Ok, now that I've typed it, I have to say this is increadably aggressive. Let's discuss feasability ASAP!