… or, things to come II

For the last few releases I’ve been bumbling along, changing whatever I fancied and never really worried about anyhting. The closer ZenMagick moves towards a 1.0 release, the more difficult it becomes to continue doing that.

There is a long list of things I want to do and also a list (not on paper) of things that I think should be in 1.0. There are two things I really should get done to give the releases a bit more direction and also (re-)assure users that there is actually hope to get to a 1.0 release at all!

1. Prioritize the visions list and split it into two listsl; one including things that will be in 1.0 and one with things to come.
2. Eventually I’ll have to face the fact that after a 1.0 release I’ll have to spend more time doing proper branching in order to keep the APIs stable for a while. At the same time there should be work on future versions with new/changed APIs and stuff from the visions list that didn’t make it into 1.0.

I guess one reason why it takes me so long to get there is #2. Branching and maintaining several branches (for example a 1.0.x branch and also a 1.1.x branch) is not something I am particulary looking forward.

in conclusion, I will try to start working on a more substantiell roadmap towards a 1.0 release and put that on the wiki once it is fleshed out enough to be of any use.