Hi all,
I think I've mostly finished with the reworking of the roadmap. Thank you to everyone who has provided ideas or critique:
http://wiki.inkscape.org:8080/wiki/index.php/Roadmap
This shouldn't be taken as gospel, of course. It's likely that tasks will need to be resorted as we move forward, but I think this gives us a starting point to plan around.
Two factors I've tried to account for in the prioritization are first, that we have a goal to achieve SVG Mobile (aka SVG Tiny) support by version 0.50, and second that developers are going to want to work on separate aspects of Inkscape in parallel, rather than everyone focusing on one area for one release. Thus I've added categories in each section to roughly define what these different areas are, and have attempted to avoid putting too many tasks in any one area.
Please feel free to re-prioritize or elaborate on any of the items here. It would especially be nice if we could more distinctly call out lower level tasks for some of the higher level task descriptions, so that new developers can more easily find things defined well enough for them to work on. Also, linking to mail archives or wiki pages with more info about the tasks would be quite helpful!
If you adjust priorities, it would probably be better to move things *later* than earlier. There's no problem with planning to do things far in the future but actually getting them done early! But if we put too many things into 0.46, it could get a bit overwhelming.
One of the things that's gotten really clear is that if we really do want to get SVG Mobile support by 0.50, then we're going to need to start thinking about cutting ground on Animation. Fortunately the spec only requires "Basic Animation support", with a subset of the features, so it sounds pretty doable if we give ourselves plenty of time and do some really good brain storming on it. For 0.46, we could focus on conceptual definition - what we want, how it should work, and so forth. I know a lot of people have good ideas on this, so it's probably going to be mostly a matter of getting those ideas recorded and organized, so future prototypers have something to inspire and guide their work.
Bryce