The current schedule for the 1.0 release, which should be ready by the time that Xfld 0.3/1.0 is released (depends on Xfce 4.4.0 progress).
Research in the area of file managers; try to figure out the problems of other file managers, so that we don’t repeat them.
Decide on the basic user interface (prototype required?).
Finish the overall design, and write some sample code to do performance measuring on the critical parts (MIME-detection and the like).
Implement the code, adjusting the design on-the-fly if necessary.
Experiment with the user interface.
Final check on the user interface.
User interface/string freeze. Translation and user documentation process starts now.
Beta stage, write test cases for the code. Bugfixing/stabilizing the code.
Release candidates. Final fixes.
Documentation/translation freeze.
Release version 1.0.0, together with Xfld 0.3/1.0.