Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] GNOME Roadmap - Information Request sfor ekiga

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi !

Le mardi 24 avril 2007 �0:50 +0300, Lucas Rocha a �it :
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> GNOME 2.18 was released ~1 month ago, and we've all started to focus
> on the next development cycle. A new roadmapping process has been
> proposed[1] to know our short-term and long-term plans. The goal is to
> compose a GNOME-wide roadmap for the next stable releases. And we need
> your help to do this. It's important that you take a few minutes to
> reply to the following questions before May 7.
> 

No problem :)

> ----
> 
> - What are your plans for GNOME 2.20 (next 4 months, before feature and
>  UI freezes)?
> 

If we have enough manpower to achieve it, ekiga 3.00 should be ready.
The main feature of Ekiga 3.00 will be :
- support for audio and video codecs on the form of plugins (allowing
H.263, H.264 to be used through appropriate plugins)
- a new user interface, more modern, and sexier
- SIP Presence support (to know if somebody is away, in a call, and so
on)
- Xvideo support (finally)
- A better Win32 version thans to DirectX support (sound, video,
display)
- IAX2 support
- And much much more

> - What are your plans for GNOME 2.22 (next year)?

A sane evolution of 3.00, perhaps with more protocols, but the main
goals are not defined yet.

> - Do you have plans for a future release?
> 


Sure, 3.00.

> - Do you have any goals from 2.18 that were not achieved? Why?
> 

3.00 because of the lack of spare time for the main developers. We are
not all financed by big corporations...

> - Is there something that is really missing in our infrastructure or
>  platform that would help you?


Not right now. We have the right contacts for the SIP infrastructure.

> - Do you have plans to work on other modules not maintained by you?
>  What are they?
> 

No plan (no time).

> - Do you have any GNOME-wide goals suggestions for the next releases?
> 

More integration. There is no point in doing a desktop if there is no
integration, and currently, integration with Ekiga is rather weak.

> ----
> 
> You can reply those questions in two ways: you can directly create a
> wiki page for your module's roadmap or you can just reply this
> message to roadmap-list gnome org 
> 
> To create the wiki page, follow the instructions:
> 
> 1. Create a wiki page under http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/ModuleName,
> where "ModuleName" is a wiki word version of your module (i.e Gedit,
> LibGnome, GnomeVfs, etc). You can use this template for the wiki page
> initial content:
>  http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/ModuleTemplate
> 
> 2. Add a link to the new page in http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Modules
> and set the status column to "Info" accordingly.
> 
> ----
> 
> You can keep track of the roadmapping process for your (and other)
> modules at:
>  http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Modules
> 
> For more information about the roadmap process, go to:
>  http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Process
> 
> For more information about our schedule, go to:
>  http://live.gnome.org/Schedule
> 
> Thanks for your contribution!
> 
> The Roadmap Gang
> 
> [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2007-March/msg00011.html
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