User:Martinlanghoff/F14 release cycle thoughts

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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...)

Needs attention

Some things we know will need work.

  • Ubifs -- serious testing, expands testing matrix
  • 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.

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
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