Re: [Basket-devel] Short-Term Roadmap && Publicity

[Alex G. <gs...@cs...>]

> As you are certainly already aware of, I released 0.6.0 RC on sunday.
> Since then, packagers are working.
> I received some patches to make it compile on SuSE and Mandriva.
Good. Actually, I'm a Kubuntu user, do they plan on including it?
... thinking of which, doesn't matter to me, 'cause I'm going to compile the 
SVN version in the foreseeable future...
> So it's time to decide what we will do in the next few months.
>
> KDE 4 will be released only at Q3 2007!
> That's horrible.
On the other hand, KDE is not just the framework, but the complex of its 
applications. So I think that when they release the next developer version, 
with a bit more functionality, it may be time to start doing it. Oh, dunno...
> So I propose to do a 0.6.1 release.
> It will not contain any big refactoring.
> So, let's target 0.6.1 for February 1st.
> My own roadmap for the following months:
> - Save basket to file
> - Notes to UTF-8
> - Basket template
> - First time introduction baskets
> - "Other..." background image, and background images management
> - Automatically set the link title according to the HTML title
> - Import Text Files & Import Bookmarks
>
> Alex, what would you want to work on for 0.6.1?
Well, if there is no refactoring, I'll probably do only small fixes here and 
there (such as, for example, making the "add sibling basket" adding it 
actually as a sibling, i.e., next to the current one and not the last in the 
list). Maybe I'll get around to adding printing, but really, it's a waste of 
time to write things that exist in Qt4 :(

The biggest problem I'm having with it right now is that I'm quite content 
with the functionality of 0.6 version, so I don't feel any pressure to add 
any major features. So, things I'd do, if any, would be consistency fixes 
(you know my love of visual feedback), and general code cleanups - only so 
that I would feel good about it.

The way I consider Basket is something like K3B - it is feature complete, and 
it is now time to get it perfected. Which for me, means *clean*, especially 
in the code.
>
> 0.6.0 is the first release of BasKet Note Pads I would recommand anybody to
> use.
>
> I'm currently finishing the website, create a new "Take a tour", "Visual
> guided tour of new fetaures"... and I will contact some websites to write
> articles about BasKet Note Pads and make it known to lot of new people.
What about a Slashdot article? You can claim a OneNote replacement... here's a 
title:

Title: Basket - one more dent in the Microsoft's Office juggernaut

Abstract:
This time the target is OneNote. There are numerous notekeeping applications 
out there, <insert list here>, but if you need sheer power, Basket is a 
natural choice.

The new version, 0.6, <insert links to the release announcements>, features 
Kontact integration, built-in folder encryption, tree-based organization, 
drag-and-drop within folder and between folders, rich text editing, grouping 
of notes and many more. The packages can be downloaded <here>, and the full 
release notes are <here>.

Disclaimer: the submitter is one of the Basket's authors.
>
> Alex, Petri, is there a chance you could do the same in your country, local
> Linux-centered websites, etc. ?
> If you prefer, I can give you English articles and you will just have to
> translate and adapt them.
I don't think I have a natural venue to push it... I personally don't know 
that many full-time Linux users.

Regards,
Alex