Qubes OS Community-Developed Feature Tracker

This page tracks the progress of Qubes OS features under development by members of the community.

Feature Name	Issue	Developer(s)	Status	Last Update	See Also
Set dom0 wallpaper service	215	Eva Dogstar	In progress	2016-08-31	[Partial PoC]
Qubes MIME handlers	441	kulinacs	Partial	2016-10-14	[Partial PoC] [Post] [Discussion]
Split GPG using GPG v2.1	474	HW42	In progress	2016-06-09	[Discussion] [PoC]
More Qubes extensions for Thunderbird	845	Raffaele Florio	PoC	2017-09-07	[Discussion]
Incremental backups	858	v6ak	PoC	2017-03-20
Centralized Tray Notifications	889	v6ak	Partial	2016-06-12	[Discussion] [PoC]
MAC Randomization for `iwlwifi`	938	Tasket	PoC	2017-08-05	[Tails implementation] [Conversation with NM devs] [Upstream NM patch]
Qubes Screenshot Tool	953	Eva Dogstar	PoC	2017-07-07	[Discussion]
Improve audio/video sync	1322	qubesuser	Question	2016-06-12
Instant DispVMs	1512	qubesuser	Blocked	2015-12-22	[PoC]
Separate `volatile.img`	1527	v6ak	PoC	2016-04-23	[Discussion]
Transparent SSH SOCKS proxy for Qubes	1536	Zrubi	PoC	2018-02-12
Routing Qubes master audio to a VM	1590	Matt McCutchen	In progress	2017-06-19	[Discussion]
KDE5 decoration plugin	1784	jgriffiths, Marek	Partial	2016-07-31
Storage Subsystem Design R4	1842	Bahtiar, Marek	In progress	2016-05-21
Debian in dom0	1919	unman	In progress	2016-11-25	[Fedora 22+ in dom0 (#1807)]
anon-connection-wizard	1938	irykoon	PoC	2017-08-30	[Post on Whonix blog]
Cache updates	1957	Rustybird	PoC	2017-03-18
Split SSH	1962	henn	In progress	2017-04-22
qubes-split-browser	2469	Rustybird	PoC	2016-11-30
USG keyboard hardware proxy	2518	Robert Fisk	In progress	2017-06-12	[USG v1.0]
VM topography visualization tool	2575	Zrubi, Andrew (kyboren)	PoC	2017-01-13	[Discussion 1] [Discussion 2] [Zrubi's implementation]
Integrate YubiKey with LUKS	2712	the2nd	PoC	2017-09-21	[Discussion]
Multi-Update Tool	2718	Tasket	PoC	2017-05-26
Qubes-VM-hardening	2748	Tasket	PoC	2017-04-24	[Discussion]
qubes-url-redirector	3152	Raffaele Florio	PoC	2018-02-23	[Discussion] [GSoC Project Description]
Qubes Network Server	3512	Rudd-O	PoC	2016-11-05	[HVM support needed (discussion)]

Definitions

Feature Name: An informal name or description for the feature.
Current Developers: "(none)" means that no developer is currently assigned to this feature. Developers from the community are highly encouraged to claim these features and work on them! (Even if a feature currently has developers assigned to it, it's usually the case that help is still wanted.)
Status: See the table below for the meaning of each status term.
Last Update: For in-progress features, this denotes the last substantive development progress update (not merely the last time there was activity on the issue or thread).
See Also: Related discussions, PoCs, or other links.

Status Term	Meaning
Planning	Feature is being discussed to determine scope and goals. Development has not yet begun.
Partial	Feature is partially complete but is not under active development.
In progress	Feature is currently under development.
PoC	A proof-of-concept has been successfully created, but more work (and/or code review) is required to integrate it with Qubes.
Blocked	Development is blocked.
Question	In order to determine the status of this feature, one or more questions need to be answered first. The question has been asked, and we are waiting to receive an answer.

About the Tracker

This tracker is maintained as a tool to assist the core Qubes developers. Its purpose is to allow the developers to have an easily-accessible, high-level, current overview of features that are being developed by community members (as opposed to core developers). In most cases, these issues have the "far in the future" milestone on GitHub, which is not very informative. This tracker offers more fine-grained information about the status of each feature, which is useful when adjusting the Qubes roadmap for the next release. In order to best serve this purpose, only those features that meet the following criteria are tracked:

The feature is being developed by a community member, not (solely) by a member of the core Qubes development team (i.e., one of the people on the Team page who is a developer).
The feature is assigned to a community developer and/or is at some stage of progress. (In other words, mere proposals or ideas that no one has volunteered to take responsibility for are not tracked. This allows us to maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio and hence to preserve the tracker as a useful tool for developers.)
The feature is not yet complete. Once it is complete, it will be removed from this tracker. (This entails that any patches have been accepted, reviewed, and merged.)

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