2013/10/15 Marcus Denker <[email protected]>: > > On Oct 15, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Oct 15, 2013, at 9:43 AM, kilon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I really like the idea of roadmap. In an open source project people are free >>> to work in anything they like , even bring new nice features of their design >>> as long as they don't disturb the existing code. >>> >>> But the same people, including me, or even mere users , wonder where the >>> software is heading. Even an exploration ship , that sets to explore new >>> areas has goals. I would like to see in the pharo website a roadmap not just >>> for 3 but even for pharo 4. I know that Stephane has given a presentation >>> about pharo 3 roadmap , maybe you could link those slides. >> >> the problem with this is that we do not have a clear roadmap for Pharo4 >> (yet). >> How it works now is: at the beginning of a year iteration we make a list of >> what we want, taking into account what emerged latest year (both new >> possibilities opened and new/old problems that emerged). >> >> That gives us what we can more or less call a "next release road map". And >> is "more or less" because situation can change. For example we wanted a >> complete revamp of Pharo3 L&F, and we wanted also a complete migration of >> Morph to be rendered with Athens, and reality showed that is not achievable >> this year... so it will wait until next one (and that does not means at all >> that we stopped work on that area, just that the completion of the task will >> take more time than expected). >> So... what's the roadmap for Pharo4? No Idea :) >> What we already know is that we made a huge move forward in infrastructure >> for Pharo3 (starting by Opal, but not restrained to that), and now we want >> to focus in the tools (but without doing *just* that, because there are lots >> of tasks to do in kernel, modularization, cleanups, etc.) >> >> in general, for pharo there is a vision document that shows the long (really >> long) term goals. Now I do not remember where is it, but should be somewhere >> in the pharo site (probably not visible enough). >> > The problem is that I think we already did a lot of that vision. We need a > new one. >
I wish all our problems were like this one :-) -- Pavel
