[Bluemusic-devel] Short term roadmap

[stevenyi <ste...@cs...>]

Hi all,

Just wanted to let you all know my short-term plans.  Right now the
InstrumentLibrary/Arrangement stuff is functioning but some of the
things that used to depend on the Orchestra class are needing to be
redone (blueShare, import from csd).  the blue 0.94.0 versions will be
finishing this up as well as the CeciliaModule.

After these tasks, I will be planning to take time to clean up and
refactor quite a bit of blue.  I've been planning out the rearchitecture
for a while and have come down to:

-Removing the XMLSerializer and using valid XML for saving/loading data
classes
-Moving towards more truly MVC code
-Reorganizing object communications, using central ActionController
class to process all actions and handle restoring GUI states for
UndoableEdits, thus providing a path to implement undo functionality for
all of blue
-Extracting all hardcoded strings for Internationalization
-Work on documentation for both User's and Developer's (including
guidelines both for plugin developers and blue core developers)
-reworking the plugin interfaces as abstract base classes or
implementing DefaultAbstractClasses for interfaces where useful
(SoundObject, Instrument, NoteProcessor)

It's about time for an overhaul I think.  An upgrade strategy will also
be a must to maintain compatibility with older project files.  

Thanks,
steven