Roadmap

• Milestone: beta3

  8 weeks late (01/21/10)

  45%

  Closed tickets:

  44

  Active tickets:

  53

  / Total tickets:

  97

  Goals for this release:

  • thread safety, stability
    • all objects based on GObject to eliminate hackish GIL work-arounds
    • code refactored to Genie
  • full cross-platform windowing and input
    • replace platform specific code with the GIMP Drawing Kit (gdk)
    • migrate old soy.Window to soy.windows.*
    • window classes to support resize and closure callbacks
    • input callbacks to handle button/key press, hold, and release
    • input callbacks to handle axis and pointer location
  • new rendering features
    • normal (dot3) texture maps (GHOP#335)
    • billboard meshes (GHOP#322)
    • liquid rendering (GHOP#336)
    • sun mesh for lights (GHOP#337)
    • 8 new standard materials (GHOP#320)
  • more scenes
    • soy.Scene moved to soy.scenes.Scene (#903)
    • move physics processing from _coreLoop to Scene (#930)
    • additional scenes to add elements such as plane/heightmap collision (#928 #929)
    • will later offer optimized collision and rendering
  • better .soy format
    • texture wavelet compression
    • mesh and material support added
  • unit tests
    • Mesh vertex/face ordering (GHOP#326)
    • Window creation/destruction, placement, title change
    • Widget stacking, resizing, reparenting
    • Color comparison, math, and hex string
    • Axis rotation

  Features this release is unlikely to include:

  • Audio
  • Network
  • SVG textures
  • Behavior (aka, AI)
  • Skeletal mesh deformation

• Milestone: beta4

  2 weeks late (03/01/10)

  12%

  Closed tickets:

  1

  Active tickets:

  7

  / Total tickets:

  8

  This release is aimed at inclusion in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

• Milestone: beta5

  Due in 6 weeks (05/01/10)

• Milestone: 1.0-rc1

  Due in 4 months (07/01/10)

• Milestone: 1.0

  Due in 6 months (09/01/10)

  This release is aimed to coincide with Gnome 3.0 release.

• Milestone: 1.1

  No date set

  0%

  Closed tickets:

  0

  Active tickets:

  1

  / Total tickets:

  1