Hello everyone,
Last week, I deployed a new version of the Gladys site, focused on documentation.
Today, I’m resuming the development of Gladys 4 itself.
Before diving headfirst into development, I reviewed the short-term goals of the project and the ongoing tasks. I would like to discuss this here so that we can also discuss it with you 
My number 1 goal now is to launch Gladys 4 RC
To achieve this goal, I had to make choices. I took all the tasks on GitHub and asked myself, « Is this development necessary for the RC? » If my answer was « Yes, absolutely, » then I added the task to the milestone.
We therefore have 21 tasks remaining in the milestone:
The milestone on GitHub → GitHub · Where software is built
For these 21 tasks, I have estimated the time required to develop the feature:
- 13 tasks “low” = 13 * 2 hours = 26 hours / 8 hours = 3.25 days
- 5 tasks “medium” = 5 * 1 day = 5 days
- 2 tasks “high” = 2 * 4 = 8 days
This allows me to estimate the development time required to release the v4 RC:
3.25 + 5 + 8 = 16.25 development days (130 hours)
Note that these are « pure » development days.
Working part-time on Gladys, on my side, I am available Monday and Tuesday for Gladys (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I work for a client as a freelancer).
Knowing that on these 2 days of Gladys, I am not really available for 2 days, because there are many things that take time:
- Responding to community messages
- GitHub administration
- Gladys Plus maintenance
- Site maintenance
- Accounting
- etc…
By trying to compress these tasks enormously, I think I can have 1.5 days of development per week.
I need your help
If I were alone on Gladys, it would take me 11 weeks to finish this RC, which brings us to mid-October. And even that, I find it optimistic, not counting any possible breaks (I’m not a robot 
)
I therefore call on your help to help me finish this RC
All PRs are welcome, if they concern these 21 tasks.
Because, the bad news is that if we want this v4 to be released, it’s that I have to say « no » to everything else… 
I know, it’s very sad, there are so many great PRs waiting on GitHub, but I have to face the facts: it’s not possible to do 15 things at once. I just don’t have the bandwidth to do that, the days are so short.
Trying to do everything means doing nothing.
Let’s go!
On my side, I start the series of todos, and I will update my development estimates on this thread Thanks to your help, the v4 may be released earlier, I hope