the dojo psi

Taskerbot BETA Testing

Taskerbot over time has developed into an extended “tools and utilities” multi-module program for taskers/viewers/managers. At the beginning of this year I pulled it out away from TKR so it is stand-alone as its own project, and then closed it to all but people who volunteered as beta-testing. I expect this to take all of 2009 since there is a lot (a lot!) involved.

In the process of going through the first and most major module, TASKER, the awesome beta testers had a variety of questions and requests. After thinking about it a bit, it became clear that the fundamental nature of the thing needed to change. It had been originally designed with one general usage idea, but over time had come to be used for a broader scope. It needs to be redesigned to fit that broader scope from the ground up.

I’m going to put some notes here about each module’s changes as a kind of summary, to make it easier at the end of the year to go back and see what all happened. There is too much correspondence during the beta, on the private tbot beta board at the dojo forum, to easily keep track of the ‘end result’ of a lot of discussion and testing.

PJ