Roadmap

The Roadmap

The goal of this page is to provide an overview of current goals and their status similar to the roadmap page from DungeonHack.

Task status description:

• open: no one has claimed this task yet or the task has not been started
• wip: work-in-progress; someone has claimed/started this task
• done: task is finished

Additional tasks can be found on our issue tracker.

SCons itself

Task	Status	Assigned to	Target version
Performance Work	wip	bdbaddog	3.1
Integrating stubprocess.py wrapper for speedup	wip	gary, dirk	3.x
Revamp of Tools subsystem	wip	gary
Recursive Glob (ant-like)	wip	dirk
Java support, partial redesign and adding functionality, e.g. for inner classes (JavaStrategy and JavaSupport)	open	jannijtmans,russel?
TNG, refactor task scheduling	open
PluginArchitecture, what's this?	open

Web stuff

Task	Status	Assigned to	Target version
Rewrite/restructure "About SCons"/"Getting started" sections	open	member

Done

Task	Status	Assigned to	Target version
Migrate to GitHub	done	bdbaddog	3.x
Migrate current issues database from Tigris to GitHub	done	bdbaddog	3.0.1
Python 3 compatibility (including full Unicode support)	wip	bdbaddog	3.0
Switch trunk development to Mercurial (DVCSMigration)	done (2017-04-14)	member
Redesign website	Done	Bill
Issue 2264: cross-language scanner support	done	William Blevins	2.5
Switch Node class to using slots	done	dirk	2.4
Rewrite of doc toolchain	done (2013-05-04, rev 0c9c8aff8f46)	dirk
New design for SCons docs (book/article)	done (2013-05-04, rev 0c9c8aff8f46)	dirk
MoinMoin upgrade for further tweaking	done	techtonik

See also SConsFutureProjects for ideas considered for implementation.