We have too many ideas about what to code next for Filmaster and we usually just do hundred things at a time with no planning whatsoever. That's why we came up with the Roadmap. Basically, the Roadmap is supposed to make Filmaster look like an organized and fully professional project.
So, here we are...
Filmaster 1.0-pre (Public Beta)
Released in: April 2009
Implemented features:
working recommendation enginemovie blogs for users (in subdomains like user.filmaster.com)ratings and short reviews (or justshorts)a rating machine (suggests movies to rate on the fly)discussion forum for each film/person + general forumsmovie collections (my movies, wishlist, shitlist)movie rankings in different categiries (general, screenplay, cinematography, etc)taggingsimilar movies (based on tags, director, votes)private messages, invitations, comrades (aka friends)rating imports from IMDB, Criticker (no, we don't like Flixter)RSS for all activities (no personalized RSS yet)English version up and running
Filmaster 1.0 (Stable)
Planned release date: November 2009
Planned features:
Official synopses downloaded for most movies:FLM-10- Rework the home page (e.g. put short reviews there, un-expose forums and recommendations): FLM-4
- All features stable
Filmaster 1.0.1
Planned release date: Before the end of 2009
Planned features:
- Rework the home page (e.g. put short reviews there, un-expose forums and recommendations): FLM-4
- Fix all the bugs of 1.0 (wasn't it supposed to be stable?)
- All features even more stable
Filmaster 1.0.2
Planned release date: Somewhere in the future, but hopefully in 2010
Planned features:
- Recommendations engine revisited: FLM-3
- Similar movies revisited
- more on Jira
Filmaster 1.1 Movie properties
Planned release date: Feburuary 2010 ![]()
Planned features:
- Movie properties (brutality, sex, moody, etc) including:
- design of the model for properties: FLM-2
- collaborative editing
- displaying
- managing
- more on Jira
Filmaster 1.2 Showtimes and TV-integration
Planned release date: Somewhere in the future, but hopefully in 2010
Planned features:
- Integration with Google Movies (or a similar service) to show personalized info about the movies currently in local cinemas
- Showtimes fetcher for selected location: FLM-40
- What's on in your area? -- personalized site
- TV programme integration
- Reminders (SMS, E-mail) "Movie Apocalypse Now! which is on your wishlist is currently displayed in a local cinema Richmix on Bethnal Green Road, London on Wednesdays at 1 PM", etc -- btw who the ... goes to watch movies at such ridiculous times??)
- more on Jira
Filmaster 2.0
Planned release date: Somewhere very distant in the future but hopefully still in 2010:
- Facebook app (all tasks for this subproject in jira's Filmaster Facebook App version)
- Proper content search with indexer FLM-16 and FLM-17
- Android and iPhone apps (simple voting + recommendations)
- Configurable wisgets on home page FLM-5
- Polls for forum and reviews: FLM-8
- User karma: design the model (FLM-31), algorithm (FLM-31) and implement the bot to compute it (FLM-32).
- No, that's not all -- please add your ideas and link them to pages if you want to discuss!
- Jira has the list of well-defined tasks for Filmaster 2.0.
Detailed roadmap
Notice that only the tasks for 1.0.1 (bugfix release after 1.0) and later are stored in our JIRA issue tracker. The detailed roadmap is available at Detailed Roadmap on Filmaster Jira.