[sugar] Second pass in the 0.84 goals

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Next generation journal" has to be a very high priority for the next
>> release. It certainly impacts
>
> Are you referring to the datastore or to new journal UI here? (they
> used to be mixed in the previous version of the roadmap).
>
> I agree that it's a very big deficiency and we need to address it
> asap. I'm just worried that one release cycle might not be enough to
> do so. The biggest features in the new design to me seem:
>
> * Versions.
> * Separation between objects and "story" in the journal UI.
>
> Are you proposing to address these? Or to improve reliability of the
> backend and do incremental improvements on the UI? (tags etc).

To clarify a bit...

The current plan is to land a rewrite of the datastore early in the
release cycle, using the same API and the same user interface. That
will mostly help reliability and performance but it's also a
prerequisite for the new design and likely for any journal UI
improvement. It might or might not support versions.

What is not defined is which new features we should aim to develop on
the top of the new datastore in the 0.84 release cycle.

Marco