Hi Carol, Re your comment: > In response to Scott's mail, if you look at the roadmaps linked to there is nothing approaching a feature oriented roadmap there, though a lot of good input is gathered in the mails captured at the end of his w.l.o/9.1 link, and of course there is no clue in this page as to which if any of these suggestions will be implemented and when. That is the problem. Here's what I mean by a feature roadmap. Pick a set of key improvements. Say when you are going to do them in words that can be understood by an outsider. (Not, for example, "glucose 6.7.8.9 <with a git pointer>" ). Asking for this roadmap is not about criticizing that the development is going too slow.
********** I agree that we need better future directions communication. I think Eben recently said he will try to clean that up from the Sugar UI side. On the XO software in general, right now we do not have a firm enough plan beyond 8.2 to create a roadmap like you describe. Its on my to do list to clean up the 9.1 page but it will be a while before we can choose the set of features and approximate order or time frame for them. That said, 8.2 is not quite released yet (will be generally available and and manufactured next week) so for a few more days, the current roadmap is: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0 Let me know if that is written in the user accessible language you want to see. As soon as we have a plan for after 8.2, I'm all in favor of writing a feature level roadmap. Its a high priority but we have to get over this big hurdle first: "Pick a set of key improvements". BTW the starting point for seeing the future plans is here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Future_releases Hopefully that gives you an idea of the status of forthcoming releases and links to the past releases. Let me know if that does not address your concerns. Thanks, Greg S _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
