On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 01:41:43PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: Here is my first cut at the roadmap for 0.44. I have tried to make it a bit more geared toward a stabilization release, so there aren't a lot of required new features here. I have tried to limit it to things that are either already underway and likely to be completed, or that are fairly easy to do (planning, mockups, etc.) Anyway, take a lot and give me your comments. Bryce === Milestone 10 - Stability - Inkscape 0.44 === Stability * Close 400 points worth of bugs SVG Tiny Conformance * Plan how to implement support for SVG's "switch" element (SPItemGroup subclass, I think..), and the associated requiredFeatures, requiredExtensions and systemLanguage attributes (on SPItems in general) * Scope out what to do for SVG filters Internals * Make clones respond sensibly to original duplication [bb] * Review & plan out replacement of sp-file.* [bryce] User Interface / Usability / Gtkmm * Integrate Scislac's text toolbar code [scislac & bb] * About Screen ** Add tab or section to about screen with known issues/bugs [drb] ** Add tab or section to about screen for release notes [drb] * Create prototype of a TreeEditor dialog for use by the XML editor, Extensions, Layers, etc. * Layer Dialog ** Create a mockup of Layer Dialog ** Plan out work needed for implementing layer dialog * Extension Manager ** Create a mockup of Extension Manager dialog ** Plan out work needed for implementing Extension Manager Extension Infrastructure / DOM * Replan out extension/effects API/registry/etc. work (specification?) * Define how to handle extension preferences (dialog?) * DOM/XPath support ** Get/set properties of Inkscape internal Nodes [ishmal] Inkboard * Stabilize inkboard further * Make Inkboard code work cross platform Cleanup Work * (PARTIALLY DONE) DirectoryReorgProposal Directory Reorganization ** Implement support for both user and global level config files ** Implement support for both user and global level shared collateral * Plan tasks to thoroughly document SPRepr [bryce] * Make some progress on InkscapeJanitors items Testing * Include more unit tests in `make check' * Automated regression test system ** Make reports include full warning/error test [bryce] ** Plan out how to add svg_rendertest support [bryce] ** Enable NFS mounting [drb] ** Plan creating/adding a cairo/inkscape performance comparison test

On 9/25/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: I'd say the usual is _at least_ 3 months, typically more. This release was so short that some people didn't even realize that there was a non-freeze period after 0.42 :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org