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= Intro =

'''Note:''' raw unfiltered thoughts, please contact me before acting upon them.

== Fix ASAP ==
* Progress bar sits at 0% when using GUI's with none server http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=868
* Fix reset/build again

== Before 1.? starts in earnest ==
* Investigate oetypes for listing configuration variables and suggesting appropriate values
  - lib/oe/types.py and typecheck.bbclass
  - Talk to Jeff P re: his requirements

== Phase One (Planned Features for Yocto 1.? M2) ==
* Optimise, we take ~3mins to load all the data
  - perhaps we can have the GUI provide a method which the server uses to return an appropriate data object? Rather than having the server iterate over all of the data and create a data object only for the client (ui) to then iterate this data object and create a different data object with its contents.
  - PyGtk bindings support a more simple value setting syntax, the following snippet will set the third row's values:
       model[(2,)] = ('new string value', 'string 2')
  Therefore we can optimise insertion of the data into the tree model by ensuring the data comes back as a list (one entry per row) of tuples containing appropriate values for each column.

* #770 "Add mechanism to enable UI's to request extra data be stored in the cache" http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770
* Add mechanism to enable selection of server back-end at runtime, rather than it being hard-coded. Furthermore a UI should be able to specify which server it wants to run against
* Distro selector dropdown (easy)
  - as per MACHINE dropdown, partially implemented
* Package format dropdown (difficult)
  - cooker able to determine classes which are appropriate for the value
  - wrap with command
  - hook up to hob
* Image output type dropdown (difficult)
  - cooker able to determine all possible values for a variable
  - wrap with command
  - hook up to hob
* Build development toolchain checkbox (easy)
  - add meta-toolchain to task list
* Toolchain host combo (easy)
  - like MACHINE, set SDKMACHINE from possible files in machine-sdk, partially implemented?
* Include development headers with toolchain (easy/medium)
  - add dev-pkgs to IMAGE_FEATURES?
* Spinner to set BB_NUMBER_THREADS (easy)
* Spinner to set PARALLEL_MAKE (easy)
* Save/load previous configuration (medium)
  - save will create a .bb file from which the created image can be reproduced
  - load will parse a bb file and set up the gui
* A search box which does basic find in the currently selected treeview's model (medium)

== Phase Two (Bug fixes) ==
* Sorting in Packages (by Group) column changes when item selected (included value alters sort order)
* hobhandler as a proxy to the server feels unclean
* Enable changing sort order in tree views (A-Z | Z-A | ??) by clicking column header
* Show some notification when doing long-running operations i.e. toggle a package with many DEPENDS and the UI blocks without feedback
* Bitbake reports "ERROR: Nothing to do.  Use 'bitbake world' to build everything, or run 'bitbake --help' for usage information." when exiting hob, need to allow UI's to configure whether this message is relevant or not
* When cancelling build confirm before killing

== Phase Three (Unplanned Extra featrues) ==
* Display and change IMAGE_FEATURES
* Enable/Disable layers
* add context menus to build view
  - view logs
  - show log directory
  - view log for task
  - copy log
  - paste bin log