Tomboy Developers Meeting Plan - 08 March 2007, 13:00 PST, #tomboy

Things to accomplish in this meeting

• Mission Statement
• Goals for 0.8.0
  • o Add to future release if we know it's something we want included eventually but it's too big to take care of this time
• Project ideas for Google SoC
• Non-coding tasks
• Other?

Mission Statement?

• Have a clear "mission statement" so we will avoid rat-holes when people ask about adding feature X, Y, or Z.
• Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application that is simple and easy to use
• Simple and easy-to-use are the main things, and while this assessment is subjective, anything that would complicate things should not be included/considered

Goals for 0.8.0

• Synchronization
  • o Solve the problem of people using multiple computers o What solution do we use?
    • + Conduit
      • # Showing good promise of working! Right now Tomboy is essentially the flagship application for Conduit, so I'm pretty sure that the Conduit project will make it happen # If we choose this route, I'd like to see us make the configuration much simpler. For example, a user would just have to go into Tomboy's preferences, enable synchronization, enter in username/password for backpackit.com or something and it'd all work.
      + Others?
      • # Unison, iFolder
      + Build our own
• Tagging
  • o Dirt simple way to tag a note with a tag/label
    • + If our solution is to have the user enter "Tags: abc xyz" at the end of the note, we've failed + Grandma should be able to use it
    o Adapt the Search All Notes interface to quickly filter by tags o This obsoletes the need for Notebooks
• Scalability
  • o How should Tomboy handle really large sets of notes? o Right now we've had some reports about Tomboy slowing way down when the user has lots of notes

    o Possibly finish out the abstraction of the NoteManager

• Move to a newer Gtk+ (gtk+-2.10 or newer)
  • o Pros:
    • + Improve printing support + Remove libegg dependencies
    o Cons:
    • + Exclude older distributions + Makes it hard for people like dave_largo (Largo, FL) to use newer Tomboy on deployed workstations that are a bit old
• Clean up orphaned note links
• Numbered lists
• Win32 Port (Sandy)

Project ideas for Google Summer of Code

• Checkbox/TODO/Tasks plugin
  • o Just the same way that we have bulleted lists, allow users to create tasks. A special TODO note would conglomerate all tasks into a single note
• Encrypted Notes
  • o Be able to mark a single note as encrypted so that it requires a password each time you open it o Useful for keeping a note that stores passwords and other sensitive information
• Firefox Integration
• Trash can
  • o Provide a GUI for the user to undelete notes
• Generate report notes
  • o Allow user to search notes by certain criteria and then generate a single note that includes the content from all the notes (so they can print it, export it, etc.)
• Revision control
  • o Revert to previous revisions of notes

Non-coding tasks

• Continue www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy/ cleanup (atk has done a great job so far)

• Rework Developer-oriented wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/

  • o Update the RoadMap o Need a developer FAQs ?

    • + Help newbies come up to speed + Help people know what the project won't be doing