Re: GNUstep roadmap (was Re: [Suggestion] GNUstep-test for quality control)

[Adam Fedor]

On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 01:22 AM, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:

> But to remain at least a little on-topic allow me to ask this question 
> (as a simple user resp. programmer who needs to decide whether to use 
> it or not): where will the GNUstep project be within 12 months (which 
> will be more or less GUI 1.0)? What is the (realistic) roadmap for the 
> GNUstep project anyway?

Well I've thought about that question a lot, obviously, but I don't 
have a really good answer. Most of my goals revolve around the concept 
of the GNUstep Desktop. That is, I can have a lot of individual goals 
about the GNUstep development platform, but it's hard to know what's 
really important without a consensus of what the "reference" GNUstep 
Desktop would look like. Will it be "all GNUstep", with our own Window 
Manager, or do we need to give up our small town mentality and try to 
integrate better with KDE and/or Gnome. What are the really important 
things that people want to accomplish with GNUstep?

I don't much care which way it goes.  I've been working on GNUstep for 
over 10 years now, and I just keep going for the fun of it, not because 
I have any aspirations that it will become some wildly popular, 
unbeatable project. My one hope is that it will be useful before it 
becomes obsolete :-)

I have a few goals listed on the "Task List" at www.gnustep.org. Let me 
know if you have any suggestions.