These are the following tasks I think we ought to finish before considering a release for public preview:

Fan Compiler (Brian)

• finish porting the compiler from Java to Fan
• enhance error reporting, especially for mixins, definite assignment
• constant folding, other low hanging optimizations
• fix bugs like nested closures
• language enhancements: with blocks, facets, finally

Sys .NET (Andy)

• implement sys runtime for .NET
• emit fcode to IL
• implement sys API in C#

Fantext (John)

• Finish features
• Tools for documentation builds

RDMBS (John)

• Simple API to access RDBMS via SQL (JDBMS, DataSets, etc)

O/R Framework (if time permits) (John) (depends: RDMBS)

• How to easily map RDBMS into Fan classes

Threading (Brian)

• Implement threading & concurrency model

Sockets (Brian) (depends: Threading)

• Implement socket API

HTTPD (John) (depends: Threading, Sockets)

• Implement pure Fan web server

Fake (Brian) (depends: with blocks)

• Implement Fan build framework

Documentation (All)

• We need awesome detailed documentation for a great developer experience

Fandev.org (Andy) (depends: RDBMS)

• Have fandev.org completely running on Fan
• Documentation
• Discussion group
• Community features?