1.0 Roadmap

[matthewkaney]

I think this is already at a point where it only does a few things, but does them well, with a minimum of bugs (mostly because CodeMirror is a mature project that works very well). So, it’s nearly time to start putting real version numbers on things. Here are a few outstanding features that I think are necessary for minimum viable text.management:

• Tidal restart
• Custom BootTidals
• Better GHCi management (Console: Better tracking of IO #24)
• File management (Basic file management for desktop #15)
• Tabbed browsing (Tabbed browsing #22)
• Rudimentary settings (e.g. Color scheme settings #25)
• Collaboration w/ cursors (Collaborative editing mode #38, Multi-user cursors #8)
• Icons on all platforms
• RedHat release
• Undo/Redo (figure out if this is working, needs menu items, etc) (Undo/Redo support #43)
• Code signing and auto-update (Code Signing #44, Auto-update #45)

[cleary]

The undo/redo functionality is pretty critical imo - is this implied by any of these items?

[matthewkaney]

It's not, only because I thought it was already supported? I know it has existed in some testing contexts, but I can investigate if there's some issue with it on the desktop app. I agree that it's critical, and Codemirror support is already very solid.

[matthewkaney]

Tabbed browsing can wait, code signing/auto-update is more important

EDIT: Tabbed browsing is back, given that it provides a useful interface for other features (settings, help screen, etc). Porting earlier collaboration code, on the other hand, is trickier than I anticipated and is a lower priority for my own use this summer. It's going to wait a bit.

[matthewkaney]

I'm also dropping #24 from this timeline, since it's especially valuable in collaborative settings.