Foundry27 Roadmap#

Foundry27 is by its very nature a dynamic environment; we expect continuous refinements to the portal and its projects. We plan the evolution of Foundry27 into a rich ecosystem that will span the following 4 phases: *Foundation - infrastructure and initial content seeded - done! *Building Community - enhance content and get community interest - already making great progress! *Enablement - contribution framework in place, active community *Momentum - projects from the community start producing value add

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Portal#

While we believe the initial version of the portal is a great environment for the QNX community to interact, we already have plenty of ideas to improve it over time. You suggestions are welcome; share them through the Community Forum.

Projects#

While the initial set of projects that Foundry27 hosts is small and mostly based on QNX contributions, it is our mission to increase the number of projects over time, and to promote projects from other community members. QNX plans to offer its technologies to the community through new projects on a quarterly basis.

Contributions#

Because the goal of Foundry27 is to foster the community of QNX users and developers, contributions from anyone is welcome. We are currently working on the official process that will govern the creation of new projects, as well as external contributions, to QNX's own projects. We expect to have this process and infrastructure in place within the first quarter of 2008. However, until we have an official and published process, we encourage anyone interested in sponsoring a new project to contact the QNX Community Management Group.

Roadmap Table#

The table below summarizes the upcoming major milestones:

Milestone	Major Accomplishments	Planned
Launch	QNX Community Launched	3Q07
QNX Operating System Project	Kernel, system libraries, core utilities	3Q07
BSPs and Drivers Project	Initial set of BSPs and drivers	3Q07
Bazaar Project	Hosts several components not developed as part of a project	3Q07
Core Development Tools Project	GNU Compiler, Debugger, binutils, make and nasm	3Q07
IDE Project	Milestone builds and plans of the QNX Momentics IDE	3Q07
K-Scope Project	Multi-media Demo Application	4Q07
Networking Project	Next Generation Networking stack, protocols, drivers (io-pkt)	4Q07
Tracker Support Enabled	Tracker support for each project	4Q07
External committers	Infrastructure and governance ready to handle community contributions	1Q08
Filesystems Project	Block/Flash/Network Filesystems and Utilities	1Q08
System Services & Additional Drivers	char-io, audio, USB, PCI	2Q08
Photon Project	Photon runtime component	3Q08
Graphics Project	Advanced graphics components	3Q08
Multimedia Project	Multimedia components	4Q08

Roadmap Staging Area (Good Ideas Yet To Be Scheduled) #

These are unscheduled items that are good ideas but have no hard timeframe associated with them. If you have additional ideas, post a message in the community forum and if it sounds like it makes sense, we'll get it in the staging area.

• Support for instant messaging clients and project scheduled "chat with developers live". Share virtual beers and solve problems in real-time.
• Project source code metrics. Integrate capability for svnstat style automated source code repository statistics
• Comparable source cross-referencing such as OpenGrok