[Gramps-devel] General Update - upcoming plans

[Don A. <dal...@us...>]

I thought I'd give a brief update on development roadmap.

Version 0.9.5 was released a few weeks ago, and so far has seemed to be
pretty stable. At this point, the goal is to reach a stable 1.0 release.
The next release, which will be version 0.98.0, will be the stepping
stone to 1.0. The major feature of 0.98 will be the move from lists to
trees in the people view. This can be seen at
http://donaldallingham.home.comcast.net/gramps/tree.png. The other goal
of 0.98 is to round out the existing features and get rid of the some of
the minor annoyances.

Version 1.0 will won't add any new features to 0.98. Instead, it will
fix any bugs that are found. Version 1.0 will then be maintained as the
stable release.

GRAMPS will follow the naming convention of many OSS programs. 1.1 will
be the development version, and the next stable release will be 1.2.

The primary goal of 1.1/1.2 will be to integrate a real database
backend. This will allow GRAMPS to handle very large databases without a
significant decrease in speed or increase in memory usage.=20

Over the next few weeks, I may be posting a survey to help with some of
the trade offs as we move to forward.

Don

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Don Allingham <dal...@us...>
GRAMPS OpenSource Genealogy