VisualEditor/Roadmap

This is not set in stone, just an outline of our current thinking for the time being.

Our current VisualEditor/Parsoid development priorities (as of 2012-08-21) for the December release are:

1. Round-tripping (i.e., what you edit is what gets saved, and what you read is what you see when you click 'edit')
2. Alienation (i.e., if we don't yet support editing of a node type, it instead displays as a block that you can move and remove but not alter, and adjusts the wikitext appropriately on save)
3. Productionisation (i.e., it doesn't fall over at scale)
   Things above this line are "drop-dead" criteria for release in December 2012.
   

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4. Getting what we have working perfectly — (paragraphs, headings, pre-formatted paragraphs, OLs, ULs; italics, bold, links)

   Lingering issues with inline nodes and whitespace preservation

5. API-ing the VE/Parsoid stack (so they can be extended by new developers without them having to learn the whole code base)
6. Adding support for new node types:
   1. Images (inclusion inline and as thumbnails)
   2. Definition lists
   3. Categories

Forward-look

SPECULATIVE AND INDICATIVE ONLY -- NOT TO BE TAKEN AS CURRENT OR BINDING DELIVERY TARGETS

VisualEditor timeline: 2012/13 Q1-2 (i.e., July-December 2012)

Work area		August	September	October	November	December
UI	C O R E	Link inspector Generic inspector design	Re-code to use new API Context-sensitivity Generic inspector design ctd.	Image inspector Initial Category inspector	Citation inspector Initial Template inspector Image inspector ctd.	Productionisation
	E X T	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.	Table inspector	Bespoke {{cite}} inspectors Table inspector ctd.	Table inspector ctd.
MediaWiki integration	C O R E	—	—	Simple diffs Simple edit conflicts	Simple diffs ctd. Simple edit conflicts ctd.	Productionisation
	E X T	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.
Core (CE, APIs, etc.)	C O R E	Alienation Inline images Proper selection Native delete Document & implement APIs	IME Alienation ctd. Inline images ctd. Proper selection ctd. Document & implement APIs ctd. Port to new APIs and test	Unknown	Unknown	Productionisation
	E X T	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.
Parsoid	C O R E	JS Parser work C++ Port	JS: Categories, magicwords C++ Port ctd.	Template support C++ Port ctd. Design API i18n Images	Implement API Productionisation	Productionisation ctd.
	E X T	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.	No real scope for external input.

Future work

VisualEditor outline functionality needs: 2013 Q1-2 (i.e., July-December 2012)

Work area		2013
UI	C O R E	Generic Template inspector Template creation inspector
	E X T	Gallery inspector Others as needed.
MediaWiki integration	C O R E	Visual diffing Non-page editors Talk pages
	E X T	Media library integration Video player integration Media inspector to cover video/etc.