Develop/roadmap

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I am planning to apply to OLPC for a job as a contractor, working on Develop. I have been told that my first-priority feature, automatic code localization, would be hard to justify on the OLPC roadmap. So I'd like to hear some votes/priorities on the following "dream" features, listed roughly from easiest to hardest (+/- two slots):

  • auto-pylint
  • doctools
  • peekaboo-like (figleaf with xmacro - throw autogenerated events at an activity, watch coverage, and log stack traces. When I worked at Palm, they called it "gremlins".)
  • autocompletion
  • move towards collaboration, starting with support for merges and changelogs (new-version notification and real-time collaboration would both come later than this)
  • automatic code localization (program in Python with Spanish/Chinese/whatever keywords, but it is real python on-disk)
  • debugger
  • Gui designer (a la glade)
  • other (bug tracking? etc.)

Add four tildes underneath an option to vote for it, and include any short reason/explanation you care to.

(for those unfamiliar with Develop currently, it has source coloring, good find-replace, log viewing, rudimentary version control through the journal. Currently I am working on updating the bundle format, this will make Develop more useful for existing activities, and make sugar smarter about updates; for instance you will be able to have a dev version and a stable version coexist on a given XO. This current work would be done before I would even begin with anything from the above list.)