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+# Roadmap
+
+## Plans for soon
+
+* Write device drivers : keyboard, FAT (or EXT2 ?)
+* Work on userland : init, terminal emulator, shell
+* GUI server with help from kernel for framebuffer management
+
+## Things to design
+
+* Reclaiming physical memory :
+  - Freeing some cached stuff, ie swapping pages from mmap regions
+  - Swapping pages from processes non-mmap regions (ie real data regions)
+* Better handling of errors (rather than panicing) ; userspace apps should not
+  have the possibility of crashing the system
+* How does a process transmit information (such as environment, arguments, file
+  descriptors) to its children ?
+* How do we do stream-like IO on files ? (ie how do we implement the append
+* access mode
+  and non-position-dependant read/write calls & seek call)
+* Better error reporting for system calls that fail
+
+## Things not sure
+
+* VFS thread safety : is the design correct ? (probably)
+* Cache architecture (called *pager*, after 4.4BSD terminology)
+* Not enough tests!
+
+## Plans for the later future
+
+* Define a format for "packages", i.e. read-only filesystem images used for
+* adding system
+  components or apps to the OS ; make sure to implement it in a way that does
+  not waste memory
+* Module system for extending the kernel In userspace, simple Scheme-like
+* scripting language POSIX compatibility layer, self-hosting OS The obvious
+* stuff ;-)
+