[scribus-dev] Plans for 1.3.6

[Craig Bradney]

On Saturday 27 September 2008 16:04:59 Andreas Vox wrote:
> Am 27.09.2008 um 15:23 schrieb Christoph Schäfer:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm currently writing an article about Scribus 1.3.5 and beyond.
> > For that purpose I'm very interested about individual developers'
> > goals for 1.3.6. I know some Craig's and Jean's plans, but no details.
> >
> > If anyone has a specific set of goals that's going to be achieved
> > during the 1.3.6 development cycle, it would be great if I received
> > a list in a personal email.
>
> Textframes:
> - work with Pierre to integrate Harfbuzz
> - integrate a complex script shaper, probably in cooperation with
> Rajeev Sebastian
> - prepare textframes for external XML
> - provide scripter bindings for more textframe features
>
> Styles:
> - extend style system to other types of styles (object styles, line
> styles)
> - clean up style manager / properties palette (I guess that's where
> everyone should help out)
>
> Fonts:
> - maybe include customizable and virtual fonts
>
> Canvas:
> - clean up canvas code
>
> At the end of 1.3.6, the work I started with 1.3.4 should be stable
> and presented by a finished GUI.
> I guess Pierre will state his goals resp. OpenType font features.
>


This looks like more than 3 months work.. you ONLY have 3 months. If at 3 
months there are things not done, they will not be waited for but pushed to 
1.3.7. You need to define these goals more before they can be included. Items 
that will take 6 months need to have plans for splitting across two releases. 
This is for everyone.


From the wiki, which should be the primary source of projects for 1.3.6 we 
have:

Color work (jghali) 
Rewrite file saver with QXmlStreamWriter (jghali) IN PROGRESS 
Rewrite preferences load and save functions (cbradney) IN PROGRESS
Rewrite preferences GUI (cbradney) 
Add in Status Bar information strings (perhaps not in GUI until 1.3.7) 
cbradney 
Improvements to SVG import 4732 
Improvements to colour support in the Barcode Generator 6781 
Enhancements to Master Pages 6781 
Enhancements to the Documentation 6058 
Possible Integration of successful GSoC 2008 projects

Andreas, please add your suggestions and plans to this page.

We all need to add more detail to that page for the above items. Other 
developers need to add more items if they have them.

Christoph - all items on the wiki roadmap will be reviewed before 1.3.6 kicks 
off and it will be decided which items remain and those that move to 1.3.7. The 
team should review the specifics of your article before it is published, if you 
don't mind, as our goals may change just before your story goes to print.

Still, 1.3.5 needs releasing - lets get on and get it finished!

cya
Craig