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Glow Requirements and Planning

The items below summarise our objectives for the next major release and the requirements for each interim milestone.

Glow 1.0 - Objectives
Glow 1.0 - Requirements Summary
Glow 0.1-0.9 Milestone Requirements (not yet published)

Glow 1.0

Objectives

Goal Priority	Description	Status
1	Provide a full-featured open-source client application group calendaring, contacts, mail, instant messaging (IM) and web folders (WebDAV) client application that most (see percentage) users are satisfied to adopt (migration, features and usability) instead of popular commerical and open-source calendaring clients: Microsoft Outlook (80%) Mozilla Calendar (70%) Mac iCal (60%) Ximian Evolution (60%)
2	Provide offline support with synchronization to online servers
3	Support mobile device synchronization for PalmOS (need input on priority of SyncML, Symbian, ...)
4	Also provide an integrated instant messaging client feature that many (see percentage) users are satisfied to adopt (migration, features and usability); because IM protocols are subject to authentication block by commercial services, we rate acceptance by IM service, protocol and OS: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN: (Windows 35%, UNIX 45%, Mac 50%) Jabber (70%) (SIP/SIMPLE - standards not ready yet)
5	Also provide web folders (WebDAV) client features that many (see percentage) users are satisfied to adopt (migration, features and usability): GNOME Nautilus (70%) KDE Windows XP Explorer
6	Implement and promote open standards for each groupware feature: test interoperability with the standards implementation of any commerical product that makes a groupware server available to the Glow community (ideally via a public internet host, but evaluation binaries are also acceptable) test interoperability with the standards implementation of every open-source groupware server communicate interoperability test results back to the server group
7	implement proprietary protocols where it is necessary to interoperate with a popular commerical or open-source groupware client or server: Kroupware/Kolab OpenGroupware.org James