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The AO is a collaborative project to integrate the most useful open-source software in an accessible way. For the project to develop and become a greater success over time requires:
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Not backsliding on features: Not losing features and fixing broken features promptly; not letting new features break, replace, or make redundant existing features.
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Polishing existing features: Fixing bugs with existing features before moving on to new features; continually using the software ourselves and making tweaks.
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Integrating existing features together: Improving consistency in how features interact functionally, conceptually, and visually and behaviorally in the GUI. Integrating existing features more tightly or inventing a new useful way two features can interact.
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Adding new features: After fixing bugs, polishing, and integrating existing features as much as possible, add, debug, polish, integrate, and polish the integration of one new feature.
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Reformatting conceptually: As features are integrated, new paradigms and new ways to combine and conceptualize features together will become apparent. These new concepts will be necessary if the AO is tightly integrated, but if the AO is not well-integrated at the time then adding big new ideas is likely a mistake based on the existing messy concepts. First tighten up the UX logic, then paradigm shift.
The more care and shine is given to existing features and their integration, the more advanced the AO will become as a project overall. Once a certain critical mass of core features is integrated and polished, the AO will be widely adopted.