Project Plan

Genesis is based on the Eclipse RCP. As such, it exists as a set of plugins which together constitute the Genesis application.

[edit] Development Plan

1. Access PGV site lists
2. Cleaner PGV site adding
3. Sync remote PGV data with local cache
4. Browse/search individuals from PGV site
5. Full CRUD for PGV

[edit] Proposed Items

• A plugin that connects to Retrospect-GDS websites (Note: Retrospect-GDS does not have a web services API)
• A plugin that connects to TNG websites (Note: TNG does not have a web services API)
  • Search the TNG Network
• A plugin for searching FamilySearch (with and without a member login)
• Plugins for all the other great forms-based genealogy services out there
• Search PGV sites using Google
• Search for GEDCOM files using Google
• Pedigree view
• Family view, circle chart view, etc.
• Ability to import a GEDCOM file
• Ability to export selected data to a GEDCOM file
• Peer-to-peer connections between instances of Genesis
• Establish an automatic build process
• Create a public key infrastructure for signing Genesis features
• Support internationalization
• Pretty application icons

[edit] Versions

Versions are given in MAJOR.MINOR.REVISION form.

Incrementing the major component means that backwards compatibility of the published public API has been broken. Note that the Genesis plugins are currently at version 0.0.REVISION, suggesting that none of the API has yet been frozen.

The minor component is incremented for each significant release. When the major component is incremented, the minor component is reset to 0. Again, the Genesis plugins are still in the initial development stream, so the minor component will not be incremented for a while.

The revision component is incremented with each commit to the repository. It is not reset to 0 when the minor or major component is incremented. It may also skip numbers because Subversion repositories use a global revision number (which may be incremented by other projects in the same repository).