Roadmap

Inkscape Development Roadmap

NOTE 1: This is a working document showing specific near-term tasks needed for achieving the numbered milestones. It is not a wishlist of features to be included in future releases. Because people often work on whatever they feel like, this roadmap should only contain items that really have a good chance of being done for the next release (which means, somebody is actually working on them).

NOTE 2: Because this document became completely separated from reality, I replaced it with a more realistic version that reflects what we're actually doing. --Tweenk 13:45, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Milestones 0-13 have been completed since the start of the Inkscape Project. See OldRoadmap

Inkscape 0.48

0.48 is intended to be a quick release cycle focused on merging GSoC work and fixing some long standing bugs.

• Merge and stabilize Google Summer of Code 2009 work
  • (DONE) Node tool rewrite
  • (DONE?) Connector tool improvements
  • D-Bus scripting API
• (DONE) Desktop integration improvements: solve the issue of broken files resulting from people unknowingly pasting bitmap images as links.
• (DONE - to be considered for 0.49, branch at lp:~tweenk/inkscape/waf-build) Build system improvements: evaluate Waf as an unified build system for all platforms (Krzysztof)
• (DONE) Move code hosting to Launchpad
• Windows port improvements
  • (DONE) move devlibs to a Launchpad project
  • (DONE) Rebuild C++ libraries using TDM-GCC to fix Launchpad bug #173116 - exceptions not caught across DLLs
  • (DONE) Upgrade Windows devlibs to recent versions of GTK and GLib to fix several Windows bugs
  • Make the uninstaller work

Inkscape 0.49

0.49 will be a longer cycle focused on refactoring and new features.

• If Inkscape participates in GSoC 2010, merge all student work done during it
• Evaluate changing the numbering scheme to a date-based one, or setting more realistic goals for major (1.0, 2.0) releases
• Make flowed text SVG-compliant
• Port renderer to Cairo

Long term goals

• Better modularization: separate the Inkscape codebase into several libraries that could be used by other programs.
• General refactoring: make Inkscape a joy to develop.
• SP tree refactoring: Port the object tree to C++ objects.
• XML refactoring: Remove direct manipulation of XML from as many places as possible and replace it with SP tree methods.
• Live path effects: investigate extending to cover generic vector transformations (vector effects). Provide live versions of several destructive operations: boolean ops, stroke to path, text to path, etc.
• CSS support?
• Animation support.