VisualEditor/2012-13 Q2 forward-look

This is the forward-looking plan for the VisualEditor team (including Parsoid) for the 2012-13 Q2 cycle (i.e., from the start of October through to the end of December 2012).

Priorities for this quarter

 * Getting the APIs finished (so other people can more easily get involved)
 * Improve stability of the core platform on our target browsers (so it works when we…)
 * Deploy in some form to production in a way that lets test users edit real content

Browser matrix

 * This is not final, but work-in-progress for the VE team; data current as of end-September 2012.

Removed from plan

 * Parsoid
 * C++ implementation for December
 * We have decided to focus on the Node/JS prototype of the Parsoid for the December release as we do not expect to have the C++ version ready by then.


 * Node-handlers
 * Table editor
 * Due to the unexpected difficulties encountered, we do not expect to ship additional node handlers (for other content types) before December, including tables.
 * Citation editor
 * Due to the unexpected difficulties encountered, we do not expect to ship additional node handlers (for other content types) before December, including citations.
 * Definition lists editor
 * Due to the unexpected difficulties encountered, we do not expect to ship additional node handlers (for other content types) before December, including definition lists.

Areas of work
To come.

Open Questions
To come.