[Amrita2-users] Roadmap of Amrita2

[tnaka at dc4.so-net.ne.jp]

This roadmap was posted just before release 1.9.5.

= Status of Amrita2 at the release of 1.9.5

I think the basic feature of Amrita2 is fixed and it has almost same
functionality to amrita 1.0.x now.

But there are many features not fixed nor documented. I'd like to make
some of those features open before 2.0 but I have not decieded what
feature should be before 2.0 yet.

I will start this Amrita2-users list at the release of 1.9.5 to
discuss about it with potential users.

The most unit tests will be kept after 1.9.5 although there will be
more deep refactoring and tuning . If I have to change any of the unit
tests, I will announce it to this list and be ready for comments from
now.

= Roadmap

Milestone  	Release Date
1.9.5       2005-5       
1.9.6       2005-7       feature freeze for 2.0
1.9.7       2005-8       RC1
?                        RC2
2.0         2005-9       stable version for ROR
?           ?            bug fix releases
?           ?            bug fix releases
...

2.1         2005-11      add new features(cache, etc...)
?           ?            bug fix releases
...
                         stable version for CGI
2.2         2006-02      add new features
?           ?            bug fix releases
...

2.0 is a release mainly for Ruby on Rails. It will lacks feature
around caches. So it may be slow if process initialization is needed
every time.

2.1 is a release for CGI.

2.2 is full set with most of features under developing now.

There will be no branch until 2.2 . I will add new features to main
trunk. So, if you need real stable version wait for 2.2 or contribute
tests to guarantee the features and qualities you need.

= The purpose of this list

== support for Amrita2

Any questions and requests for Amrita2 are welcome.

I think Amrita2 is completely ready for evaluation use and can be used
for real use under some conditions. If you use it for real system,
avoid features undocumented and stay tune on this list.

== document review

If you found something unclear in documents in the tar ball, comment
about it in this list.

I know I am not good at English, so feel free to say anything about
it.

== on demand document writing

There are many lacked sections in the document now. These missing
sections will be written on demand. So push me to write when you need
some.

And Amrita2 is hard to document because it has a few but very complex
APIs.So I will write documents as a FAQ style: please ask me anything
and I will answer. The answer will turn to be documents later.

== pick up features for next major release
 
Give me feature requests and questions. I think some of those will be
answerd by opening undocumented features. Those features will be fixed
and supported feature at next release.

And if you found something interesting in uncompleted documents or
unit tests, also feel free to ask me about it.

= How to join this list

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Taku Nakajima