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 in late 2007 or early 2008.

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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-Don
• Mark-up in notes: use bold, italics, ... in the notes - completed-Zsolt

• An Undo feature ? TODO (no reason to wait with 3.0)
• Presentation with mark up in some reports ? TODO

• Multiple Shared Notes: every object can have several separate notes - completed-Alex,Don,...
  • critical bug #1318 - TODO
  • add check/repair functions - TODO
  • remove internal note of 2.2.x branch - in progress-Benny
• new GEDCOM parser (import/export) - in progress-Don
  • Minor 5.5.1 updates needed.
• Export to spreadsheet/CSV of views - completed-Don
  • could be used with CSV import if more options in displayed columns
• Use of GtkPrint for direct printing - in progress-Zsolt
• Simplified database access/Simplified document classes - completed-Don
• XML feature parity with database format - in progress-Benny
• Quick reports + infrastructure - completed-Don,Benny
• Improved Relationship Calculation
  • more relationship details, faster, all relationships, new translation API - in progress-Benny
  • even faster (on first response), iterated for status bar, re-entrant - in progress-Doug

Other Features

• Reworked icons - completed-Benny
• Reworked reports
  • Standardize and simplify output formats as much as possible
  • New gtk-based Print and preview - in progress
  • Add the notes - in progress
  • Unify GraphViz based reports - in progress (Brian M)
  • New type of report output, to screen - in progress-Doug
• New reports
  • Familylines - completed
  • Kinship report - completed
  • Hourglass - completed
  • mini reports available from person view (info, all events) - completed
  • Refined Calendar reports (first day of week, i18n, displayed names) - completed-Doug
  • WebCal, but needs to share code with other calendar-based reports - in progress-Doug
• 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
• New Display Name format options (keywords, common name) - completed-Doug
  • No need for description - in progress-Doug
• New birth/death date estimator tool (adds CAL dates for primary events based on probably alive estimates) - in progress-Doug

Testing

• Develop unit testing framework - in progress-Jim
• 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
• 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.