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Bespin Roadmap

The future of Bespin is up to you and the other users of Bespin, because of Bespin's new plugin architecture. The plans listed on this roadmap are features we (the Bespin core team) have committed to adding, but we hope to see all kinds of new features come from everywhere. Note that the list below is not comprehensive. These are simply the features that are specifically scheduled for release.

Bespin 0.8 (Cheviot)

Planned release: early June, 2010

On the client, Cheviot is a significant step toward stabilizing the APIs as the foundation for the GUI is set up. This is the first themeable release of Bespin since the "reboot". Cheviot is a both an infrastructure and feature release for Bespin.

Bespin 0.8.x

Planned release: June, 2010

We expect to launch of the Bespin Plugin Gallery on the web sometime during the month of June, with a minor client/server update to support the new web-based gallery.

Bespin 0.9 (Edison)

Planned release: late June, early July 2010

The Edison release will add JavaScript code completion to Bespin, plus other features and fixes. This will be the last major release with the Python server.

Bespin 1.0 (Max)

Planned release: late summer 2010

The Max release will represent a stabilization of the client API and the introduction of the JavaScript server. The server will likely go by a name other than "Bespin".

Bespin 1.1 (Blank)

Planned release: early fall 2010

Re-introduction of collaboration features, now implemented as a federation of independent Bespins.

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-The Bespin project is a dynamic area where the community decides the direction. However, there are large pieces that we are all working on and this is a good place to share the high level roadmap:
+= Bespin Roadmap =
-==== Full Editor Implementation ====
+The future of Bespin is up to ''you'' and the other users of Bespin, because of Bespin's new plugin architecture. The plans listed on this roadmap are features we (the Bespin core team) have committed to adding, but we hope to see all kinds of new features come from everywhere. Note that the list below is not comprehensive. These are simply the features that are specifically scheduled for release.
-The 0.1 release had a lot of editor functionality, but is missing basic editor functionality. We will have an ongoing amount of work to clean up and add in this functionality. Some examples include:
+== Bespin 0.8 (Cheviot) ==
-* Firming up navigation
+Planned release: early June, 2010
-* Adding project and session data into the UI, so you can easily get between files
-* Implementing the Apple-T "Go to file" Textmate use case
-* Implement "go to declaration" so you can jump from a method name to where it was declared
-* so so so much more.
-==== Internationalization ====
+On the client, Cheviot is a significant step toward stabilizing the APIs as the foundation for the GUI is set up. This is the first themeable release of Bespin since the "reboot". Cheviot is a both an infrastructure and feature release for Bespin.
-We need to sweep through and abstract out and fix the i18n problems that we have.
+== Bespin 0.8.x ==
-==== Search ====
+Planned release: June, 2010
-Search throughout the entire project and give jump of points. The server does the hard work here.
+We expect to launch of the Bespin Plugin Gallery on the web sometime during the month of June, with a minor client/server update to support the new web-based gallery.
-==== Collaboration ====
+== Bespin 0.9 (Edison) ==
-SubEthaEdit on the Web. Neil Fraser's [http://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/ work] could come in handy here.
+Planned release: late June, early July 2010
-==== Revision Control Integration ====
+The Edison release will add JavaScript code completion to Bespin, plus other features and fixes. This will be the last major release with the Python server.
-We want to pair Bespin to revision control. You should be able to easily edit and fork code, and we need nice merge tools and the like to make this really fun and snappy. Want to make sure that this is an open architecture that people can plugin to various rcs backends (e.g. git/hg/svn/...)
+== Bespin 1.0 (Max) ==
-==== Ubiquity Integration ====
+Planned release: late summer 2010
-We love command lines, and Ubiquity is the mother of them all. Social features built in. We made the Bespin command line as close to Ubiquity as possible to allow for us to fully integrate them two.
+The Max release will represent a stabilization of the client API and the introduction of the JavaScript server. The server will likely go by a name other than "Bespin".
-Imagine being able to:
+== Bespin 1.1 (Blank) ==
-* Subscribe to peoples commands
+Planned release: early fall 2010
-* Have a place to find commands at the Herd
-* run Ubiquity commands directly from within Bespin?
-This is exciting indeed for us.
+Re-introduction of collaboration features, now implemented as a federation of independent Bespins.
-We also want to research using the same Ubiquity parser to make it super smart. Completion is key, and we only have one layer right now. A short term project it to get multi-level completion.
-==== AST on the server ====
-We want to experiment by having the server grind and create AST that is shared with the clients on a project
-== Actual Roadmap ==
-Above are the high level features, but what is coming soon? It feels like the next versions will be:
-* 0.2: Version control release
-* 0.3: Collaboration release

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