Current plan for Phoenix

Hi all,

It's been a long while since I've written any kind of roadmap for
Phoenix, so here is one. There's not much detail (and no dates!) but I
thought it would be good to let everybody know what direction I am headed.

1. Alpha release: This will basically be what is in the current
snapshots, and will mainly be a test of the start to finish release
process, including building release binaries on the buildbot, digitally
signing the wheel files, uploading to PyPI, etc. and it is almost ready
to go now. (See other email about the name...)

2. Bug fixing: After any kinks found in the build and release process
have been ironed out I intend to focus again on bug fixing and other
polishing of the project in the lib, docs, demo and etc. This is an area
where it is easy to incorporate fixes from others so if you've been
meaning to look into solving some Phoenix or Py3 issues in the wx.lib,
or have been sitting on some fixes you've already made, then please get
them submitted as PRs. This effort will likely result in some beta
builds, published on PyPI, or perhaps we'll just jump to the release
candidate stage, depending on how things go.

3. Official release: The first official release of Phoenix will be
published on PyPI and will be based on the wxWidgets 3.0 branch. I'm not
shooting for a perfect release here, but rather an "almost everything
works" and "applications using Classic can be ported with small to
moderate effort" kind of release.

4. Post-release focus: My intent is to then switch my focus over to the
wxWidgets 3.1 branch and get all the new stuff added to Phoenix, with
regular pre-release builds (beta and/or rc). The main intent here is to
get caught up to wxWidgets and stay more in-sync with them. Since
Phoenix has less dependency on official wxWidgets releases, I expect to
be able to make official releases of Phoenix whenever it makes sense to
do so.

5. I have no plans for working on continued releases for Classic. I
expect that there are some folks who would prefer to see a Classic
wxPython for wxWidgets 3.1 instead of just a Phoenix version, but
without Py3 support the value of that option is dwindling fast IMO.


-- 
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org

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