3.0 Roadmap
The next version of GRAMPS will be a major release. The 2.2.x code is now in bug-fix only mode.
First beta versions of GRAMPS 3.0 should appear october 2007.
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Towards 3.0
Development of version 3.0 is well under way.
Main Features
- New interface to the data: Use of a Family Tree manager - completed
- Mark-up in notes: use bold, italics, ... in the notes - completed
- Multiple Notes: every object can have several separate notes - in progress
- Note view needs to have option to show all or only show unattached.
- new GEDCOM parser (import/export) - in progress
- Minor 5.5.1 updates needed.
- Export to spreadsheet/CSV of views - completed
- Use of GtkPrint for direct printing - in progress
- Simplified database access/Simplified document classes - in progress
Other Features
- Reworked icons - completed
- Reworked reports (add the notes) - in progress
- New reports
- Familylines - completed
- Kinship report - completed
- mini reports available from person view (info, all events) - completed
- Move LDS temple info out of const.py and into an XML file - completed
- Export assistant rewrite based on GtkAssistant - completed
- rewrite of export options (on all exports, not only GEDCOM) - in progress
- Consistency review:
- is everything consistent?
- views
- behavior
- is there good feedback during processing?
- any process that can take more than 2 seconds should have a msg box
- any process that can take more than 10 seconds should have a progress box
- any process that can take more than 60 seconds should have a cancel button on progress box
- is everything consistent?
- Quality review:
- Has GRAMPS passed regression tests?
- Has GRAMPS passed unit tests?
- Does it perform adequately on the large test database?
General TODO list before final release
See TODO file in SVN.
From the ChangeLog you can see much is implemented already.