Roadmap

Smewt is still in a very early stage of development. As such, some features might not work as they should, or even not work at all. Having a roadmap is important because it shows where the project is going, and makes it clear what can be expected from it.

So here's what we envision for the future of Smewt:

• Smoothing out the user experience:
  - Possibility to edit metadata manually
  - Better collection management (ie: remove old files, track file movements, ...)
  
• Database facelift
  This will mostly go unseen by the end user, but the database backend has to be cleaned and optimized. Along with that, we'll probably gain the Neo4j backend and a big speed optimization.
• Client/server separation
  Create SmewtDaemon, which is just a headless server which tracks your files, with a web framework front-end (such as Pyramid). The client can then be any browser, and doesn't need to be our current PyQt4-based one (although this one could offer more features).
• Network sharing
  If you have SmewtDaemon running, you could actually decide to connect from a remote computer and stream (or download) your collection directly, no need to carry that USB hard drive around anymore.
  We also envision that you might want to maintain a list of friends with which you share your collection and which can access it, and we want to make this really easy to do.
• Everything is smewtilicious!
  The infrastructure on which Smewt is built is very generic, so generic even that we want to extend it to many other types of media: photos, games (which you can play in an emulator), ISOs of linux distributions, ... The sky's the limit!