#title Xubuntu Development Roadmap
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== Roadmap for Raring Ringtail ==
This page is to serve as a development roadmap for the next version of Xubuntu.

[[http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-raring/group/topic-raring-flavor-xubuntu.html|Click here to see the current status of development.]]

=== Phases of development ===

||<tablestyle="border: 1px solid #888;"> '''Phase''' || '''Deadline'''||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> '''Brainstorming and finding assignees''' || 15th of November ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> '''Approving blueprints''' || 21th of November ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> '''Finalizing blueprints and specifications''' || 30th of November ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> '''▶ (Further discussion and) implementing''' || '''Ubuntu freezes''', see the [[RaringRingtail/ReleaseSchedule|release schedule]] for dates ||
||<style="padding-top: 7px;" -2> ''Read more about [[Xubuntu/StrategyDocument#Designing_a_release|the phases]] on our Strategy Document.'' ||

=== New features, major bugs, improvements to community ===
Note that any items with no driver most probably won't make it to the release.

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||<tablestyle="border: 1px solid #888;">  '''Item''' || '''Driver(s)''' || '''Importance''' || '''Links''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Community improvements || Pasi Lallinaho || High || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-r-xubuntu-community|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Fix long-standing bugs || Developer team || High || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-r-xubuntu-bugs|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Development items for 13.04 || Developer team || High || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-r-xubuntu-development|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Marketing initiatives || Elizabeth Krumbach || High || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-r-xubuntu-marketing|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Appearance improvements || Simon Steinbeiß || High || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-r-xubuntu-appearance|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Improve testing procedures || Elfy, Pasi Lallinaho || High || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-r-xubuntu-testing|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Enhance offline documentation || Pasi Lallinaho, Elizabeth Krumbach || High || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-r-xubuntu-docs|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<style="padding: 0.8em;" -4> ''Ideas carried on from Quantal'' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Ship [[http://apt-offline.alioth.debian.org/|apt-offline]] by default || - || - || [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Quantal/AptOffline|Specification]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Add optimum partitioning option to install options || - || - || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Add DVD support to Xubuntu restricted extras || - || - || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> New Panel Plug in: Disk access monitor || - || - || - ||
||<style="padding: 0.8em;" -4> ''New ideas'' ||

=== Changes on default applications ===
''Items in this group (usually) need comprehensive '''''application comparisons'''''. An assignee for each "group"/type of application should take up the task, ideally more than one to make it less subjective/one-sided.''

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||<tablestyle="border: 1px solid #888;"> '''Application group''' || '''Proposed (Current)''' || '''Assignee''' || '''Relative Importance''' || '''Links''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Package manager || Lubuntu Software Center? (USC, Synaptic) || - || High || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Media player || Listen, DeadBeef? (gmusicbrowser) || - || Medium || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Backup App || Deja Dup, ? (-) || - || Medium || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Webcam Application || Cheese? || - || Low || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Menu manager || MenuLibre, LXMenueditor, (Alacarte) || Sean Davis || Medium || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Terminal || Sakura || - || Low || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Image editor || ? (GIMP) || - || Low || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Instant messaging || ? (Pidgin (has IRC)) || - || Low || - ||