Project planning

Schedule

The first release of Thunderforce is planned to occur around mid-August of this year. The details of the plan will work backwards from that release date.

The following table depicts the current schedule for Thunderforce. Note that week 18 is the week beginning on April 30, 2007. Items in the table cells indicate when those activities should be completed by, which can be by the end of the week indicated.

Please note that, as with any open-source software project, this schedule does not constitute any promise of delivery or adherence.

Week 18	Week 19	Week 20	Week 21	Week 22	Week 23	Week 24	Week 25
Project plan and scope Notional architecture	Identification of architectural risks Experiment planning	Initial XML user interface language (XUL) files created	XUL files tested with Usability Engineering (UE)	XUL files refined Experiment execution	Architectural refinement Module identification and assignment System code skeleton created	Sprint 1 kick-off

Week 26	Week 27	Week 28	Week 29	Week 30	Week 31	Week 32	Week 33
Initial integration tests using skeleton End of sprint 1	Demonstration of sprint 1 functionality Sprint 2 kick-off				End of sprint 2 Demonstration of sprint 2 functionality Sprint 3 kick-off	Integration tests needed for release pass	Packaging First pre-alpha release End of sprint 3 Demonstration of sprint 3 functionality

Sprints

The following lists the focus of each sprint:

1. Initial integration test creation and development of base functionality
2. Feature development and integration test refinement
3. Release finalization and packaging