DevelopmentRoadmap

Inkscape Development Roadmap

This is a working document showing specific near-term tasks needed for achieving milestones.

Milestone 2

Inkscape Production:

• (DONE) Create Freshmeat project for Inkscape [tgould]
• (DONE) Remove the KDE / Qt code and dependencies [manny]
• Add modelines to source files for popular editors (vim/emacs) [tvon]
• Check all listed Sodipodi bugs and copy recreatible ones to Inkscape's CVS tracker
• Investigate why events don't always get passed from dialogs to canvas - see InkscapeTamed, section II
• Fill in HandlingPreferences with explanation of Howto add configuration parameters to the config file
• Review and integrate remaining patches in Sodipodi patch tracker [tgould]
• Implement preliminary support for doxygen or doc++ in the codebase [joncruz]
• Implement preliminary support for arrowheads on path ends [bryce]
• Implement preliminary support for layers [mental]
• Implement preliminary support for iso & hex grid [njh]
• Eliminate all warnings in g++ build process on Linux [joncruz]
• Release 0.36 and post to Freshmeat

Inkscape Experimental R&D

• Identify the remaining XML compliance bugs needing to be fixed & add to plan [mental]
• (DONE) Describe what needs to be done to fix ambiguous default namespace issue [mental]

We need to disambiguate between qnames that have no namespace and qnames in the default namespace (normally SVG's). Since internally we use a standard set of prefixes with qnames rather than expanded names, this means using e.g. "svg:g" and "svg:svg" instead of "g" and "svg" everywhere to name SVG elements. Note that namespaces are normalized to our standard prefix mappings at load time, so that does not itself constitute a compliance issue. -- MenTaLguY

• Select a regression test system strategy (cutest?) [mental]
• Build a new grid options dialog using gtkmm [njh]
• Investigate ps2ai and ai2svg conversion options (potential EPS support?)
• Identify how text-along-a-path could be implemented & plan for M3 or M4
• Prototype stroking/path enhancements [njh]
• Create list of requirements for plugin system & gain team concensus on it [joncruz, bryce]

Inkscape Website & Project

• (DONE) Convert wiki to new look and feel [tvon]
• Convert website to new look and feel [tvon]
• Post project status [bryce]
• See if it's possible to make wiki send edit notification to a mailing list & set it up if so [bryce]
• Set up backup systems http://sourceforge.net/project/admin/backup.php?group_id=93438
• Figure out why http://www.inkscape.org/mockups/export_dialog_02.png doesn't display [tvon]
• Set up hourly cronjob to rebuild code docs onto website [tvon, joncruz]
• Plan out Milestone 3 [bryce]

Milestone 3

Inkscape Production

• Implement basic 'make test' regression test support w/ at least one unit test [mental]
• Learn how to make regression tests by creating one for one source file [bryce]
• Learn how to make regression tests by creating one for one source file [njh]
• Learn how to make regression tests by creating one for one source file [ted]
• Further define regression test system implementation plan [bryce]
• Commit to C++ build; rename .c files to .cpp [mental]

Inkscape Experimental:

• Write a codebase directory structure proposal and post to mailing list for review [Mental]
• Write an extensions/plugin proposal and post to mailing list for review [njh]
• Plan task(s) for converting Inkscape Production's dir structure to new scheme

Inkscape Website

• Set up Google Search for inkscape.org [bryce]

Milestone [Future]

• Go through all Sodipodi feature requests and copy ones worth doing into Inkscape's tracker
• Investigate setting up SF's trick for CVS authentication control [bryce]
• Achieve convergence between inkscape and experimental version
• Determine requirements for an Inkscape 1.00 release & establish plans
• Set up a logging bot for jabber w/ auto-post of htmlified logs to website [bryce]
• Create a gateway to auto-announce things onto website(?) [bryce]
• Review karbon14 codebase for code/libs to reuse
• Investigate getting spsvgview building in C++
• Rework text layout code to use PangoLayout
• Change Inkscape from 'CSDI' to 'SDI'. See HIG Document Interface Types
• Add tutorial for using CVS, creating patches, doing .cvsignore, seeing diffs in commit msg to Wiki
• Set up a bot to #inkscape channel in IRC - put config in cvs 'project' module
• Set up a 'project' cvs module for putting config files, backups, etc.
• Write up some Jabber tricks and advice for new Jabberites & how to share contact info
• Appease jimmac by adding a path tool so that maybe he will stop using Illistrator to create GNOME SVG Artwork - see [1] right side of page.
• Inquire about becoming a part of GNOME Office