Roadmap (Outdated)

Roadmap

2017

2017 Q1

Main goals

• Establish Fluent as a separate project

Objectives

• Update the FTL syntax
• Create a project hub (www, github, wiki)
• Release a standalone fluent.js implementation
• Publish parsers in JS and Python for tools' use
• Reach out to a small number of industry experts
• Reach out to a small number of framework authors
• Publish an updated version of l20n.js which uses fluent.js
• Publish an early version of the Rust implementation

2017 Q2

Main goals

• Improve localizers' experience
• Design the HTML integration

Objectives

• Design UI for localization authoring tools (e.g. Pontoon)
• Improve the syntax guide and create more demo-able examples
• Add a layer on top of fluent.js which handles language negotiation and resource fallback
• Integrate with DOM via MutationObservers
• Implement DOM overlays
• Integrate with React
• Reach out to more external parties

2017 Q3

Main goals

• Improve the syntax for edge cases
• Integrate Fluent into Gecko

2017 Q4

Main goals

• Simplify Syntax.
• Release beta versions of Rust for JS and Rust

2018 Q1

2018 Q1

• Fluent Syntax
  • Release 0.5 in January (the last major version before the stable 1.0)
• fluent (JS)
  • Release fluent 0.6 which supports both Syntax 0.4 and 0.5.
• fluent-dom
  • DOM overlays v2
• fluent-react
  • DOM Overlays for fluent-react
  • attrs prop
• fluent (Rust)
  • Release fluent-rs 0.2 which supports Fluent Syntax 0.5

2018 Q2

• Fluent Syntax
  • Release 0.7 (skip 0.6) with:
    • Whitespace relaxation
    • Newlines normalizatin
  • Release 0.8 with:
    • Dynamic references to messages
  • Release 1.0 by the end of June.
• fluent (JS)
  • Optimistic runtime parser
  • Report MessageContext resolution errors
• fluent-dom
  • Experiment with mapContextAsync
• fluent-react
  • Fix follow-ups to DOM overlays
  • Allow async generateMessages
• Deprecate and archive L20n repos
  • Release l20n.js 6.0 which uses fluent 0.6.
• Linting:
  • Proper linter implementations are scheduled for Q3-Q4
  • We'll add compare-locales checks to enable some linting features in mozilla-central/try
  • Those checks will operate on Fluent AST and can be used as a base for the proper linter later on

2018 Q3

• Fluent Syntax 1.x
  • Semantic comments
  • Use tree-sitter's parser instead of EBNF
• Fluent (JS)
  • Experiment with parser combinators
  • Fix the autogeneration of Fluent docs
  • Add test coverage
  • Pseudolocales
  • Linter
• fluent-react
  • Write a tutorial for fluent-react
• python-fluent
  • Linter
• fluent (Rust)
  • Share test fixtures for parser with fluent.js and python-fluent
  • Error handling

2018 Q4

• Fluent Syntax
  • List data type and list formatting
  • Flattened nested variants
• Linter
  • --autofix