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-**Polish the user experience**
-
-First and foremost, Atom is a **product**. Atom needs to feel familiar and
-inviting. This includes a solid introductory experience and parity with the most
-important features of Sublime Text.
-
-  * First launch UI and flow (actions below should be easily discoverable)
-    * Create a new file
-    * Open a project and edit an existing file
-    * Install a package
-    * Change settings (adjust theme, change key bindings, set config options)
-    * How to use command P
-  * Use collaboration internally
-  * How and where to edit keyBinding should be obvious to new users
-  * Finish find and replace in buffer/project
-  * Atom should start < 300ms
-  * Match Sublime's multiple selection functionality (#523)
-  * Fix softwrap bugs
-  * Menus & Context menus
-  * Track usage/engagement of our users (make this opted in?)
-  * Windows support
-  * Reliably and securely auto-update and list what's new
-  * Secure access to the keychain (don't give every package access to the keychain)
-  * Secure access to GitHub (each package can ask to have it's own oauth token)
-  * Don't crash when opening/editing large (> 10Mb) files
-  * Send js and native crash reports to a remote server
-
-**Lay solid groundwork for a package and theme ecosystem**
-
-Extensibility is one of Atom's key value propositions, so a smooth experience
-for creating and maintaining packages is just as important as the user
-experience. The package development, dependency and publishing workflow needs to
-be solid. We also want to have a mechanism for clearly communicating with
-package authors about breaking API changes.
-
-  * Finish APM backend (integrate with GitHub Releases)
-  * Streamline Dev workflow
-    * `apm create` - create package scaffolding
-    * `apm test` - so users can run focused package tests
-    * `apm publish` - should integrate release best practices (ie npm version)
-  * Determine which classes and methods should be included in the public API
-  * Users can find/install/update/fork existing packages and themes
-  
-**Tighten up the view layer**
-Our current approach to the view layer need some improvement. We want to
-actively promote the use of the M-V-VM design pattern, provide some declarative
-event binding mechanisms in the view layer, and improve the performance of the
-typical package specs. We don't want the current approach to be used as an
-example in a bunch of new packages, so it's important to improve it now.
-
-  * Add marker view API
-
-**Get atom.io online with some exciting articles and documentation**
-We'd love to send our private alpha candidates to a nice site with information
-about what Atom is, the philosophies and technologies behind it, and guidance
-for how to get started.
-
-  * Design and create www.atom.io
-    * Guides
-      * Theme & Package creation guide
-    * Full API per release tag
-    * Changelog per release
-    * Explanation of features
-    * Explain Semver and general plans for the future (reassure developers we care about them)
-    * General Values/Goals
-  * Make docs accessible from Atom
-  * Community/contribution guidelines
-    * Is all communication to be done through issues?
-    * When should you publish a plugin?
-    * Do we need to vet plugins from a security perspective?
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-## Proposed Timeline
-
-1. **October 30st** - Internal launch - persuade as many githubbers to switch as
-possible.
-
-1. Triage bugs and identify what needs to be fixed before private alpha. Maybe
-talk to @chrissiebrodigan about doing a UX study.
-
-1. **November 22st** - Private alpha launch
-
-1. Trickle out invites as people ask/we need more testers.
-
-1. If our usage metrics/engagement metrics decrease, stop, identify the issue
-and fix it before continuing.
-
-1. Launch