Last summer when I was completing my masters at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, I took the Open Source course as an elective. In one of our projects, we had to investigate Open Source productivity tools. That was when I stumbled upon Chandler. 
Although I liked the product and its features, I found Chandler to be slow and unstable. With increased amounts of data, its performance reduced, and became increasingly difficult to use.
While investigating Chandler, I learned about a book titled “Dreaming in Code” by Scott Rosenberg, which was written with the Chandler project as its setting. A few weeks later, when I was early for an appointment, and was killing time in a bookshop in Mountain View, the book caught my eye, and buying it was the most natural thing to do.
From what I have read so far, it seems that Chandler started with lofty goals, but an unclear vision. The project had weak processes at the beginning. This resulted in a project with ever extending targets for releasing, which seems to be a common problem in the software industry.
