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. Weeks begin on Mondays in this schedule. 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	Context diagram Use cases	Notional architecture Identification of architectural risks Experiment planning	Initial XML user interface language (XUL) files created	XUL files tested with Usability Engineering (UE)

Week 26	Week 27	Week 28	Week 29	Week 30	Week 31	Week 32	Week 33
					Experiment execution	Developer on-boarding instructions	Architectural refinement

Week 34	Week 35	Week 36	Week 37	Week 38	Week 39	Week 40	Week 41
Module identification	M1 release XUL extensions System code skeleton created Initial integration tests for M1 preview release		Module code for M1 complete Integration tests needed for M1 preview release pass Packaging M1 release	Dreamforce			Integration tests needed for version 1.0 release

Week 42	Week 43	Week 44	Week 45	Week 46	Week 47	Week 48	Week 49
				Module code for 1.0 Integration tests needed for the 1.0 release pass Packaging Version 1.0 release