Revision as of 14:30, 13 December 2010

Synfig Roadmap

• 0.62.02 targets
  • Smart Tangents Linking - applied to master branch
  • Initial Bones support - applied a separated bones branch
• 0.63.00 targets
  • Replace class Widget_Enum : public Gtk::OptionMenu by class Widget_Enum : public Gtk::ComboBoxText as the first is deprecated since long time ago. Maybe it stops the "Straight" bug (or the bug that doesn't allow to select the item numbered as 1)
  • Replace Gtk::Tooltips by Gtk::Tooltip since the first is deprecated and doesn't work fine on treeviews.
  • Improve Preview dialog. Use better navigation icons. Allow quick shortcuts for 50% 100% resize. Don't resize content with the window.
  • Enable Layer Composite specific parameters (zdepth, amount, blend method) for the distortion layers when possible
  • Bones user interface improvement.
  • Outline with movable/sliding width points.
  • Fix Groups feature.
• 0.64.00 targets
  • Bones user interface finalization.
  • New preferences system more versatile.
  • Rewrite the current GUI using glade xml files and Gtk:Builder
  • Improve SVG import support
  • Video import improvement
  • Sif format documentation.
• 1.0 targets
  • Real Particles support
  • OpenGL rendering support
  • Cairo rendering support
  • Sound support
  • Free drawing tools
  • UI redesign
  • SWF export
  • Full SVG import/export support
  • Full video import support
  • Scripting support (python)

Online Roadmap Of Synfig. If you want to collaborate to edit this "roadmap mindmap" please let us know in the talk page of this one.

This It is not finished but would be a comprehensive list of things to be done/fix. This mind map would help to create the real Road Map for the next release. The road map should be an ordered list of bugs and features that should be fixed/implemented in the next release.

Web infrastructure reorganization

• Hosting
  • Resolve memory issues
  • Cleanup
  • Manage all settings with git
  • Sophisticated backup system
• CMS
  • Common skin
  • Top banner
  • Main page: Splash and "download now" button
  • Development page
  • Releases information with features overview (like on blender.org)
    • Put splash screen on each release page
  • Integrated irc client
  • Integrated IRC logs page
  • Download -> Tools
  • Reorder Gallery
  • Rename items in global scrapbook
  • Merge "How do I..." into "FAQ"
• Documentation
  • Common skin
  • Solid manual/guide
  • PDF export
    • Basic implementation
    • Ignore navigation panel
    • Multilevel headings
    • Internal links
  • Navigation Templates
  • Inline .po support
  • Writer guide
  • Translator guide
  • Describe templates
• Forums
  • Common skin
• Library
  • Setup ccHost
  • Common skin

Old Road Map

There is no specific roadmap, we just work on whatever happens to catch our interest. So far, we've made releases once there are a reasonable number of new fixes and/or features. This usually occurs every 6 months or so. Please see the release page for the process we go through when releasing. Please see the wishlist page if you have some ideas. Please see Software roadmap for things we want to do with synfig at some point.

As an open source project, synfig is relatively young. As a result, it has lots of creases that need to be ironed out. The copyright is sorted, the code compiles fine, but there are warts when running the code and important features that are missing. To smooth out those warts, we need people to help out. We cannot do everything ourselves, WE NEED YOUR HELP!!