Blogged Scala IDE Roadmap.

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+title: Scala IDE Roadmap
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+After an exciting end of the year, concluded with the release of the Scala IDE V2.0 for Eclipse, it 
+is now time to focus our efforts on the next Scala IDE's release, code name *Helium*. During the 
+past week we have prepared a tentative roadmap, which we would like to share with the community.
+
+We will have *three milestones*, each of them containing both new functionalities and major 
+redesign of the current plugin's architecture. In fact, one important goal of the future release is to provide a clean and 
+simple API to developers interested in building plugins on top of the Scala IDE.
+
+Here follows the complete [roadmap](http://scala-ide.org/docs/dev/roadmap.html):
+
+**Milestone 1** - mid-March 2012
+
+* Implicit highlighting - *Jin Mingjian, David Bernard and Mirko Stocker* <span class="label success">done</span>
+* Semantic highlighting - *Matt Russell* 
+* Move to Eclipse Indigo - *Eric Molitor* <span class="label success">done</span>
+* Design and implement a Scala model - *Typesafe team*
+* Create an abstraction layer with the Scala compiler - *Typesafe team*
+* Use the Scala model for the Outline view - *Typesafe team*
+* Smoother step over/in in the debugger - *Typesafe team*
+* Create a worksheet (like a REPL but in an editor) - *Typesafe team*
+* Create a new JDT model builder, using the compiled classes - *Typesafe team*
+* Extract the presentation compiler in its own project - *Typesafe team*
+
+**Milestone 2** - mid-May 2012
+
+* Add support for Find References - *Typesafe team*
+* Create a real Scala Editor (with all completion, indentation, formatting, ... support) - *Typesafe team* 
+* Improve dependency tracking - *Typesafe team*
+
+**Milestone 3** - mid-July 2012
+
+* Add support for Type Hierarchy (both in JDT and Scala specific) - *Typesafe team*
+* Scala Search (implicit use) - *Typesafe team*
+* Add support Call Hierarchy - *Typesafe team*
+* Finalize the API in Scala IDE - *Typesafe team*
+
+**Not aligned**
+
+* More refactoring support - *Mirko Stocker, Michael Holzer*
+* Specs2 support - *Eric Torreborre?*
+* ScalaTest support - *Bill Venners?*
+
+Items marked with <span class="label success">done</span> are already available in the nightly 
+builds. If you like staying on the cutting edge, you can install the Scala IDE Helium through one 
+of the update sites available in the 
+[Nightlies download page](http://scala-ide.org/download/nightly.html).
+
+If you would like to contribute to the Scala IDE project, we believe this is the perfect time to 
+get involved. Come and help us pushing the Scala IDE to the next level!