= Developers' Corner =
 '' A blackboard for ideas related to future directions''

(or, ''How do we bribe the aliens so that we can reach milestone:2.0?'')

More seriously, this is more for drafting long term ideas; 
for the actual coordination of on-going tasks, see TracDev/ToDo.

== Development Process Issues ==

Regarding [../#HighLevelObservations]:
 1. '''Core development has stagnated''' [[br]]
    Probably true, we need more people to actively care about the project.
    How?
     1. lowering the barrier to entry [[br]]
        We could achieve this by providing better docs, API docs, 
        cleaner and simpler code
     2. motivating people to jump over the barrier [[br]]
         - the great new feature!
         - nice stuff that really makes Trac stand out of the competition
     3. Some ideas which may be completely off the mark...
         - ?? Use more standard libraries. Templating has moved to Genshi, but maybe SQLAlchemy for DB backend?
         - ?? Highlight issues that should be easy for new people to fix
         - ?? Google summer of code mentoring (requires time though)
 2. '''Core developers do not or cannot commit a lot of time to the project''' [[br]] 
    Whip them? Otherwise, see 1.
 3. '''Frequently requested features do not get implemented''' [[br]] 
    Big features (e.g. MultiProjectSupport) first need to have a developer really   
    needing the feature, as it can't be done without some kind of deep involvement.
    See 1.2.
 4. '''Release cycle is way too slow''' [[br]]
    (need a picture showing Release History) [[br]]
    I proposed something with intermediate point releases, 
    see googlegroups:trac-dev:7f875005134cd355. We should actually do it.
 5. '''Zero chance of a plugin getting into the core''' [[br]]
    Well, WebAdmin was integrated. There was some attempt to do the same for 
    [TH:AccountManagerPlugin] (see also [../WhatUsersWant]), but see 3.
    Note that some plugins will never be integrated or even bundled, due to 
    licensing issues (TracMercurial and [TH:GitPlugin]).
 6. '''Features that users think should be "core" are not''' [[br]]
    Since 0.12, there's a new [source:trunk/tracopt tracopt.] package hierarchy,
    for bundling components that are not enabled by default. 
    This makes it possible to have some room between 
    ''strictly necessary for almost anyone using Trac (`trac.`)'' and
    ''optional, must be 3^rd^ party.''