Re: [tasque-list] Discussion : Tasque release schedules + Roadmap

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On 02/09/2009 10:41 AM, Johnny Jacob wrote:
> Hello Tasquers,
>
> Starting this thread to discuss Tasque's release schedules. So far we've
> been having a ad-hoc style releases. Would be nice to have some sort of
> criteria / schedule for releases.
>
> Why ?
> + Keeps the motivation for development up.
> + Users would know when they'll get the new fixes.
>
> Some thoughts from my tiny brain on release schedules :
> + Soft deadline dates with some targeted features.
> + Align with GNOME releases? (catch ppl when they want to try out the
> new stuff )
> + Roadmap. We have quite a lot of major features in the pipeline (Local
> cache, Hiveminder&  Toodledo backends)
>
> Hit 'reply' now :) !

I think it's a good idea to come up with what features and major 
bugfixes are needed for a hypothetical 0.2.0 release, and plan out how 
many releases should happen before that would be ready.

Stuff that immediately comes to mind for me:
* Local cache (meaning that you can work offline with any backend, and 
have stuff automatically sync when you go back online...this may also 
include using multiple simultaneous backends)
* Customizable columns
* Fix irritating combobox behavior (which is downright unusable on Windows)
* Add more stuff to the dbus interface (events, etc) to make Tomboy's 
Tasque add-in more awesome

As for scheduling, I have no idea what I can commit to.  But I can say 
that aligning with GNOME would only make things harder for me.  I am 
currently ignoring Tasque because in the last weeks of this GNOME cycle 
I need to focus any spare time I have on Tomboy.  I wouldn't be 
surprised if Brian has similar troubles, as a maintainer of Accerciser. 
 In addition, I doubt that observing GNOME freezes would give us a lot 
of benefit at this time.

Of course, if we have more developers/maintainers, this may be less of 
an issue.

Sandy