[photran-dev] Plan, etc.

[Jeffrey Overbey <subscribe-photran-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ralph and I spent most of today trying to make Photran a less 
non-compliant Eclipse project.

We have a project plan posted under Contributor Info on the web site. 
In particular, we want to have a full 4.0 release later this summer, or 
as soon as we can get a release review together and complete IP due 
diligence on some of the contributed code.

We will be fortunate to have 84 new developers on Photran this fall: All 
of the students in the Software Engineering course at UIUC will work in 
groups to either add a feature or fix a bug in Photran.  We don't expect 
all of the groups to produce something useful; the goal is really to 
show them what configuration management, IP issues, metrics, etc. are 
like on a "real" project (or real enough, anyway).  But hopefully we'll 
get a few nice features out of it.

We would also like to begin a move out of the Incubation phase after our 
4.0 release (which is why we haven't gone through much trouble to become 
Incubator-compliant).  Perhaps a move to Tools, perhaps staying in 
Technology...

If there are comments/suggestions, this would be a good time to discuss 
them.

Jeff