RE: [Nautilus-list] De-Lurk, Hello, Question: Roadmap?

[Aaron Weber <aaron ximian com>]

Ryan, Darin: 

Well, I'm more or less wondering about the following things:

What 'major' releases should there be over the next six months?
Which features will be added, or bugs fixed, in those releases, and
which will be deferred until later? (this whole list-joining, bug-filing
binge began with wondering if/when i could manipulate files and folders
in the treeview...)

I'm guessing that there will be a major release to coincide with GNOME
2.0, and I'd bet that nobody would object to a freeze a month or two
before that. There could even be a 2-stage deal, with a feature-freeze
and then a performance-freeze.

I don't know when exactly 2.0 will be, so I don't know if there's time
for a 1.1 release before then, but I'll bet that if there is, nobody
would object to a T-minus-two-month feature freeze and a T-Minus-1-month
bug-fixes-only freeze.

So, we'd end up with bugzilla timeframes:
1.1
2.0
future/post-2.0

Anyway, the issues to be mapped would be, in no particular order:

A: New Features (including ogg support for the music view, adding views,
file and folder manipulation in the tree-view.).

1: Performance Enhancements, which I am not skilled enough to deal with,
but they also should be 

i: Bug Fixing: I'd suggest sorting any bugs that aren't related to
performance into "Cause a crash" and "Everything else."

*: Porting to the GNOME 2.0 devel platform, which, again, I'm not
skilled enough to do anything about.

a.

On 06 Aug 2001 12:11:38 -0500, Ryan Muldoon wrote:
> I'd be interested in helping out with some roadmap-type things, or other
> tasks that don't require a hacking setup.....My plans for hacking on
> nautilus this summer have been thwarted by a dead home computer, so I am
> stuck with a windows machine at work.  But I have some spare time to devote
> to nautilus if that is useful to anyone.  I'm hoping that I can do some
> hacking once I buy a new home machine, but I'd still like to contribute
> somehow.
> 
> 	--Ryan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nautilus-list-admin lists eazel com
> > [mailto:nautilus-list-admin lists eazel com]On Behalf Of Darin Adler
> > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 11:18 AM
> > To: Aaron Weber
> > Cc: nautilus-list lists eazel com
> > Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] De-Lurk, Hello, Question: Roadmap?
> >
> >
> > On Monday, August 6, 2001, at 08:39  AM, Aaron Weber wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a roadmap for Nautilus 2.0 anywhere?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > If not, should we develop one?
> >
> > Can't see any reason not to.
> >
> > Currently, the only concrete plans for Nautilus are to port to GNOME 2. I
> > was planning to call this Nautilus 1.2, but maybe it should be called 2.0
> > just to reduce confusion about GNOME 1 vs. 2. Just getting over
> > to the new
> > versions of libraries for GNOME 2 is a lot of work in itself.
> > Besides that,
> >   we are just "following our noses", dealing with problems as they are
> > reported and all of that.
> >
> > Andy has some other things he's working on, so we should get those into a
> > road map.
> >
> > If we had some more volunteers, then a more ambitious road map would be
> > nice to have.
> >
> > > In bugzilla, the bug targets go up to 1.0 or so, and then "Future" ...
> > > so it seems like at least we should have some sort of decision about
> > > what "future" means. :>
> >
> > Yes. The idea there is that we notice new bugs by the fact that they have
> > no milestone set. A milestone set to Future means that we decided at some
> > point that they weren't for 1.0.
> >
> > The top priority for Bugzilla right now is actually moving the bugs to
> > bugzilla.gnome.org, which is why I haven't done anything about this yet.
> >
> > I personally am going to make the bug moving (and dealing with
> > the various
> > incoming patches) my top priority and then work on something like a road
> > map once that's done. But that shouldn't stop you from making
> > some kind of
> > road map sooner.
> >
> >      -- Darin
> >
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