Nucleus Roadmap

This roadmap is work in progress!

I have divided the improvements into 3 categories. For every new Nucleus release (by example 3.3) we include one, and only one at a time, big improvement, and two or three Medium improvements, and additionally an uspecified number of small improvements/bugfixes. This method will, hopefully, shorten the time between two releases.

The following are possible improvements to Nucleus that would all get their own new Nucleus Release.

• PEAR::DB 3
• Plugin API 2 with TNP's
• HelpSystem
• Skinnable Admin Area 5

The following are Medium improvements that would get

• GetText 6
• Translatable Plugins 7
• Full UTF-8 support 14
• save text box content as draft in the background (using XmlHttpRequest) 8
• UnitTesting Facilities 9
• Debugging Framework 10
• Remove 'karma votes' from the core (should be done with a plugin) 11
• ItemVars 15

These are small improvements which probably shouldn't noted here, but just be in the BTS

• generate-url-event: this was already discussed at the devlist and will enable plugins to alter look of url's generated by Nucleus 12
• let users decide whether a plugin is added to the quickmenu (“plugins in quickmenu”) 13

There are a old list of features tracked, as well as SF trackers. Some of them are worth to do.

We should vote for an order of the different improvements One possible roadmap:

• Nucleus 3.3
  • PEAR::DB
  • Translatable Plugins
  • save text box content as draft in the background
  • UnitTesting Facilities
  • generate-url-event
  • plugins in quickmenu
• Nucleus 3.4
  • Full UTF-8 support
  • Skinnable Admin Area
  • Debugging Framework
• Nucleus 3.5
  • Help System
  • GetText
• Nucleus 3.6
  • Plugin API 2 (TNP)

• Start using the slogan everywhere
• update the layout of all websites to use the new brand

• Make it a Nucleus Dev Planet
• Add links to all resources for developers
• install flyspray as our new BTS (if everybody likes it)

• Find a good way to organize the documentation and sync it (also related to the HelpSystem)