Chandler is the project featured in Scott Rosenberg’s book "Dreaming in Code" -- a thoroughly enjoyable book that explores why software development is so hard. The story ends a little too soon, after several years of experimentation, rewrites and failures. I wonder how they got from spinning wheels to v1.0? Anyone know?

Mostly scope reduction, I think.

As far as I know they're already working on Chandler v2.0 as a total revamp of Chandler 1.0. http://people.osafoundation.org/~jeffrey/rearch_documentatio...

I still remember when I first heard of Chandler on slashdot around 2001. It's good to see it released; looks pretty nice too.