v0.1.0 Roadmap

There seems to be enough activity on this repo to try and move forward with a release version of the community version of manim. For this, let’s use this issue to keep track of what needs to be done and when. Logistically, this should be the last issue to be closed in the v1.0.0 milestone, and once this one is closed, we should be able to push to pypi.

Things that need to be discussed

1. I think there is a sense among @ManimCommunity/core devs that v1.0.0 should be fully backwards compatible. This has not been fully discussed, however.
2. For full backwards compatibility, we need to determmine a timeline for deprecation.
3. It has been decided that this repo will have both manim and manimcm as entrypoints. Some of us have started calling it manim CE (for Community Edition). Personally, I like “manim CE” as a name (and the accompanying manimce entrypoint) more than “manimcm”. Though I don’t ultimately care either way…
4. I think it would be nice to have a logo at the time of release #106

Things that need to be implemented

~Get rid of CONFIG dicts in each class and migrate to dataclasses #7~

• Add extensive tests #133
• Add documentation #103 #38 #104 with sphinix on ReadTheDocs #38, including a quickstart #120
• Migrate configuration to configparser and cascading .cfg files #98.
• Clean up constants.py #98.
• Make a logo #106
• There are a bunch of things that depend on #7, #98, and #133, so we have to determine whether each one of those are required for a v1.0.0.
• Add a Scene Cacher #166
• Additional documentation examples #458
• Various small improvements #489, #490, #492, #496, #498
• Automate publishing to pypi #500
• Update the README image containing an example command #572

Please feel free to edit this issue to add/remove/check off things as you see fit.

After the release

• make PangoText the default backend of Text (#487)
• invite developers of other manim-related projects to become part of the organization (or at least ask them to support manim CE). For example: https://github.com/krassowski/jupyter-manim

[leotrs]

Folks, it seems we have completed every item on the list except for the logo, which should be decided upon by Tuesday Oct 20th noon GMT. I suggest we add the logo and also fix #407 and then release this bad boi. Objections? Comments? @ManimCommunity/core

If there are no objections, I move we put a freeze on PRs right now.

[leotrs]

Just updated the check list at the top. Please refer to it for what to do next.