Tomboy Dev Meeting for Planning 0.14.0 release
Who
Anyone! Everyone! This is not limited to those scruffy-looking Tomboy hackers. We want to stay on task during the meeting, but seriously, if you'd like to participate, just listen, or whatever, come along!
Where
When?
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 12:30 PDT (19:30 GMT)
People planning to attend (you don't have to add your name here, but if you can, let us know you'll be there):
SandyArmstrong, JohnCarr, DougJohnston ...?
Tomboy 0.12 Postmortem
Successes
- Sync Fixes
- Tasque Add-in
Gtk.StatusIcon port
Drawbacks
- Didn't get printing done
- Didn't get much else done, either :-P
Improvements
What can we do better this time?
- Better community management
- Bug/patch days
- Focus on better response time in bugzilla, especially for patches
- ??
Proposed Features for Tomboy 0.14 (GNOME 2.26)
- Most Annoying Bugs
- Are there important bugs we should focus on before we start focusing on new features?
- Cross-platform release (deployable on Mac OS X and Windows)
- Need to finish new Printing add-in
- Sync without FUSE or other Linux-isms
- Better Mac integration
- Your ideas?
Other Items
- Alternative (pluggable) backends (e.g. Sqlite or Wizbit)
- Standardization of Note format
- User testing
- Update Tomboy end-user website
Schedule Preview
The complete GNOME 2.26 schedule can be found here: TwoPointTwentyfive
Some of the important dates are:
Nov 03, 2008: GNOME 2.25.1 Tarballs Due (First unstable release)
Jan 05, 2009: GNOME 2.25.4 Tarballs Due (String Change Announcement Period Begins)
Jan 19, 2009: Feature Freeze
Feb 02, 2009: UI Freeze
Feb 16, 2009: String Freeze
Mar 09, 2009: Hard Code Freeze