Meeting/200703
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Gnash meeting in Essen, Germany, 24-25 May 2007
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Agenda
This was our rough agenda. We didn't follow the order, but we did deal with most things on the list.
- VM
- Action execution order
- Memory management
- ActionScript classes
- Threading issues
- Playback architecture
- Movie advancement (ticking)
- A/V syncronization
- Testcases and documentation
- Roadmap
- AS3 design
- What is this music project?
Memory Management
Reference counting will be abandoned. For ActionScript, we will use garbage collection; for the rest we will use simple memory management. See MemoryManagement for more info.
Roadmap
Gnash
Release dates are approximations. The priority is to have everything working.
0.8.0 (~ April 2007)
Major milestones for this release:
- YouTube and Lulu.tv video working
0.8.1 (~ September-October 2007)
Major components of this release will be:
- Optimization/Performance
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Testing Platform
- Porting business
- External font support
- Flash specification
Future
- Flash 9 / AS3
Ongoing
- Code cleanup
Undetermined
- Extensions (for instance, database support)
- Better debugger
- Flash applications 'Summer of Code', Free Flash Conference
Other Roadmap
We also need to consider:
- Cygnal
- Metaverse launch
- Gnash-based media player
- Ming GUI
- Interfaces (between components)
Attendees
- Ann
- Bastiaan
- Gart (Lulu)
- James (Lulu.tv)
- Jeremy (Lulu.tv)
- Jon (from the project which cannot be named)
- Markus
- MaryBeth
- Rob
- Sandro
- Tomas
