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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:41:36 -0400
From: Dave Brondsema <dave@brondsema.net>
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Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> 
> As we all have seen, Sean has come in like a hurricane :-) , given us 
> good ideas, and is willing to help in scratching his itches with us.
> 
> There is a problem though. We risk losing this collaboration because of 
> priority mismatch in goals.
> 
> He needs to use DocBook. We personally don't, but would be happy to have 
> that support and understand that we could use many stylesheets that 
> DocBook enthusiasts have done.
> 
> In Jira there is a roadmap that highlights the things to do for 0.7 and 
> 0.8, and IMHO it has to change.
> 
> What about this for a course of action:
> 
> Goals for 0.7:
>  - switch to XHTML2
>  - plugins
> 

+1.  If we want people to start using and creating plugins, they should 
be XHTML2 plugins, not document-v12 plugins that have to reswizzled to 
XHTML2 plugins a few versions later.

> Goals for 0.8:
>  - locationmap
>  - fix and make better internals
> 
> Goals for 0.9:
>  - finalize leather skin and switch to that
>  - enhancements and features
> 

0.9 doesn't have to be our last pre-1.0 release.  Who knows what good 
ideas may come in the future to warrant 0.10 and 0.11?

Also, I think we *really* need to release more often.  Our last release 
took way too long.  Given a stable codebase, we should release more like 
every 6 months.  I hate to see it where we have to recommend the SVN 
version because the latest release is so old.

Nov 2002 - 0.2
Dec 2003 - 0.3
Jan 2003 - 0.4
Sep 2003 - 0.5
Oct 2003 - 0.5.1
Oct 2004 - 0.6


> Goals for 1.0:
>  - testing, bugfixes, testing
> 
> If this seems sensible, I can reorganize the JIRA issues, in a short 
> period of time we can highlight what needs to do to make the theh XHTML2 
> move and then help in making it happen fast.
> 
> WDOT?
> 


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