One of the big challenges we face is nurturing a developer community. Chandler's success in the long-term depends on support from volunteer programmers. A major goal of the 0.1 release is to provide a valuable level of technical documentation about Chandler's architecture and internals, with the goal of soliciting useful feedback and beginning to enable the development of code. Without solid information, barriers to entry for developers wishing to learn more and participate are too high.

To this end, we will providing a current architecture block diagram with descriptions of the different blocks and how they fit together. This will, in turn, point back to more detailed documentation in the code itself. We will also be going into significant detail with respect to our database architecture, the RDF data model, and an overall product road map, each in separate documents. Rys McCusker has been posting pointers to snapshots of his work in progress on the database in our public wiki. Caveats: Content subject to change. At this stage. it will still be difficult to grok the plan without having a lot of background information on Chandler. By late April, there will be a lot more context.