[Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.100 status report - April 2

[Daniel Narvaez]

Hello,

I will try to send out regular reports about the progress of the 0.100
release, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly depending on how much is happening.

1. A bit late, but we finally have a schedule for the release.We are not
going to have a feature acceptance deadline this time. We decided to have
that discussion early, to try and narrow the focus of the release.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.100/Roadmap

2. In parallel some developers will keep to refine the 0.98 series. Help is
welcome on that effort. While perhaps not as exciting as new features, bug
fixing and polish is essential to good software.

3. The main goal of the 0.100 release will be to the develop an HTML5 based
toolkit for activities. This will facilitate running Sugar activities on
other platforms, like Android. In addition we are planning to land several
other features which has seen development in the past few months

Multiple selection in the Journal
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multi_selection

Enhanced support for 3G modems
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/3G_Support/Database_Support

Background customization
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Background_image_on_home_view

Multiple home views
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multiple_home_views

Integration with web services
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Web_services

Journal comments box
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Comment_box_in_journal_detail_view

Icon customization
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Icon_Change

4. The project has always had a bit of an issue with submitted code being
timely reviewed. The situation got worse in the last few months. This is a
major blocker for contributions and we are trying to improve. Simon and
Manuel, which currently maintains all the Glucose modules alone, are
putting together a list of "reviewers" to help them out with the task. We
are also trying to find review tools which will allow the process to be
both trackable and visible to everyone (and hopefully a bit more pleasant
too!). We have so far mostly experimented with a workflow based on github
pull requests.

5. Walter Bender landed several patches to add a comment box to journal
entries. It will be populated both by the Portfolio activity and by the web
services integration which is being worked on. The obligatory screenshot

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/4/4a/FB-comments.png

6. All in all I think we made great progress planning the next release. But
we will need everyone help to execute and make it a really good one.

-- 
Daniel Narvaez
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