User:Martinlanghoff/F14 release cycle thoughts

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Goals

  • Features from S0.90, polished
  • Record
  • Selected features from Dextrose, polished
  • Video accel, rotation - jnettlet
  • Antitheft - mitch for clock control
  • Upgrade -
  • XS integration

Milestones

  • Boots and works on F14 -- (done by dsd)
    • Sort out something for activities' bindings to python-2.6
  • S 0.90 polish
  • Dextrose features + polish
  • Additional features
  • Work towards release

What's coming in S 0.90

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)

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, 10.1.3 ? )

0.90

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

Dextrose

  • 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