Re: GNOME Roadmap - Information Request for pango

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 00:44 +0300, Lucas Rocha wrote:
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> GNOME 2.18 was released ~1 month ago, and we've all started to focus
> on the next development cycle. A new roadmapping process has been
> proposed[1] to know our short-term and long-term plans. The goal is to
> compose a GNOME-wide roadmap for the next stable releases. And we need
> your help to do this. It's important that you take a few minutes to
> reply to the following questions before May 7.
> 
> ----
> 
> - What are your plans for GNOME 2.20 (next 4 months, before feature and
>  UI freezes)?

Lots of small improvements in the pangocairo backend.  I have blogged
about some already.  In the pipeline for the next couple of weeks is:

  - Fix backspacing problem for non-Latin languages

  - Fix vertical text shaping to use vertical variants of punctuation,
etc.

  - Add various small/medium API filed in bugzilla

  - A new shaping engine for minority language N'Ko.  Pango will be the
first computer system ever to render N'Ko, Yay!


And a bit longer since it need cairo ground work:

  - Producing perfectly text-extractable PDFs using pangocairo.


> - What are your plans for GNOME 2.22 (next year)?

  - Catching up with recent HarfBuzz efforts, that is, merging shapers
with Qt.


> - Do you have plans for a future release?

Not sure what this means.


> - Do you have any goals from 2.18 that were not achieved? Why?

Not really.  Vertical support was the main feature worked for 2.18, but
we also got a lot of other requested API in.


> - Is there something that is really missing in our infrastructure or
>  platform that would help you?

Not really.  Pango mostly depends on glib and cairo only, and we
constantly add needed features to those and use in pango.


> - Do you have plans to work on other modules not maintained by you?
>  What are they?

Depends on the moment.


> - Do you have any GNOME-wide goals suggestions for the next releases?

I suggest focusing on Project Ridley, that is, encouraging people to
work on Ridley so we get a better, richer Gtk+ sooner.


Cheers,

behdad

> ----
> 
> You can reply those questions in two ways: you can directly create a
> wiki page for your module's roadmap or you can just reply this
> message to roadmap-list gnome org 
> 
> To create the wiki page, follow the instructions:
> 
> 1. Create a wiki page under http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/ModuleName,
> where "ModuleName" is a wiki word version of your module (i.e Gedit,
> LibGnome, GnomeVfs, etc). You can use this template for the wiki page
> initial content:
>  http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/ModuleTemplate
> 
> 2. Add a link to the new page in http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Modules
> and set the status column to "Info" accordingly.
> 
> ----
> 
> You can keep track of the roadmapping process for your (and other)
> modules at:
>  http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Modules
> 
> For more information about the roadmap process, go to:
>  http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Process
> 
> For more information about our schedule, go to:
>  http://live.gnome.org/Schedule
> 
> Thanks for your contribution!
> 
> The Roadmap Gang
> 
> [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2007-March/msg00011.html
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