Project Timeline

This may be subject to change at a later date.

Key Milestone Dates

Full extent of workload during July-August unclear at current stage... Fingers crossed it still leaves enough time+energy to get sufficient parts of this working

Week 1 (Ends 21 June) - Brainstorming ideas, reading up on useful techniques, checking on details of existing implementation
Week 2 (Ends 28 June) - Refining ideas (i.e thinking about corner cases, and how to integrate tricky subsystems), writing up user-level docs discussing design decisions
- 'Goal': Design documentation docs posted online for pages of notes+diagrams for design ideas/WIP thoughts so far
- 'Goal': A proposal for design of system for core devs to give feedback on (ETA: by end of weekend)
Week 3 (Ends 5 July) - Managing consultation process (and refinement of design to deal with any immediate concerns arising from that). Start of exploratory prototyping of key parts of design in parallel with that.
- 'Goal': Plan of attack for implementation process (notably, scope of the changes from design to be done as part of GSoC, and what will need to be left as an "after-GSoC" target, taking into account Uni research commitments)
Week 4 (Ends 12 July) - Prototyping core system
- 'Goal': Design doc
Weeks 5/6 (Ends 19/26 July) - More prototyping work