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[edit] Goals

The list below has too many things! Will obviously have to be cut :-)

We definitely need some headline features. It is our job to figure out which ones are reachable.

• Features from S0.90 -- pick some to polished, turned into headline features
• Cherry pick from Dextrose - pick some to polish ?
• Unify Read/GetBooks/etc?
• Video accel, rotation, better skype+flash compat - external: jnettlet
• Antitheft -- clock control - external: mitch
• Upgrade - olpc-update TLC
• XS integration - backup/restore
• Record performance
• Disk resize & fsck during boot -- needs bootanim fixes - dsd , martin
• Robotics -- seems we can push to completion/polish existing efforts
• Activity startup time
• Memory leaks of idle Sugar (neighbourhood view?)
• Auto-Save&Quit background activities on memory pressure (android-style...)

[edit] Needs attention

Some things we know will need work.

• Ubifs -- expands upgrade testing matrix
• Presence service refactor -- is it complete? needs testing
• Metacity
• Toolbar changes needs to be finish in all core activities
• Activity Updater needs an OLPC-wiki 'microformat' backend (maybe Dextrose team has done it?)
• Port any pending patches from 0.84
• Activities bindings -- Py 2.6 vs Py 2.7 -- got to update them, also need to give activity authors reasonable way to prep activities bundles that work on both F11 and F14 distros.

[edit] Milestones

Not sure at the moment if we want to publish "early" releases as we've done with 10.1.x . Software is not holding up HW production.

Instead, I am thinking of publishing "milestone" builds, for testers and enthusiasts but not recommended for deployments, and not supported. Then we can do something like

1. Booting, sleep/resume, network, audio, video work -- this is where we are now (done by dsd)
2. Activities start and work (perhaps to a limited extent), Sugar overall passes smoketest -- publish 'base milestone'.
   • As part of this -- review and merge bugfixes from Dextrose
   • Planned duration ~ 2~3 weeks?
   • Mini-freeze & test (2~ 3 days?).
3. Develop towards the goals above -- at the end, publish 'alpha milestone'.
   • Review and merge features from Dextrose
   • Planned duration ~10 weeks?
4. Focus on testing starts. Bug fixes only (1 month)
5. Regression fixes only (1 month)

The above stages need refined dates/timeframes of course.

[edit] What's coming in S 0.90

Prompted by Simon, I made a list of what's going to be new for our users.

[edit] From 0.86

• Activity Toolbar redesign
• Switch to metacity (do we?)
• Flash activities
• Tabs in Browse
• Ad-hoc networking (already in 10.1.3)
• Read epub support (already in 10.1.3)
• Software Update -- changed?
• Improved Accessibility (use of gtk+ widgets)
• Keyboard settings -- do we need to hide these?
• Home Favourites View Improvements
• File transfer via Jabber
• New Share button (part of new toolbar?)
• Reordered the buddy menu items (already in 10.1.3)

[edit] From 0.88

• GSM Modem (already in 10.1.3)
• Better feedback during activity startup
• New TurtleArt (already in 10.1.3)
• Share Etoys Projects on Squeakland
• Track user preferences for opening activities
• Journal calls sync() (bugfix, already in 10.1.3 ? )

[edit] From 0.90

• Remove presence service (big refactor)
• Sugar ad-hoc network (already in 10.1.3 :-) )
• Color selector in control panel
• Spiral Home View
• Journal ordering options (by size)
• Etoys

[edit] Interesting items in Dextrose Release Notes

• Intuitive resource monitoring
• Journal backup/restore to removable devices / to XS
• Improved GSM / 3G (?)
• Tabbed browsing (?)
• Virtual Keyboard
• Journal repair
• Fast switching between touchpad and pen-tablet modes
• OLPC microformat support in activity-updater
• Re-issue registration to XS