Looking Forward to GNOME 2.30
Development doesn't stop with GNOME 2.28. Work has already begun on GNOME 2.30, due to be released exactly six months after 2.28.
The final decision whether GNOME 2.30 (to be released in March 2010) or GNOME 2.32 (scheduled for September 2010) will become GNOME 3.0 will be made in early November 2009. This decision will be based on the progress of new and current GNOME applications and libraries and their impact on accessibility, stability and usability.
GNOME 2.30 will continue to provide the desktop platform and applications it always has, and will also potentially feature a new user interface in GNOME Shell and the GNOME Activity Journal which easily helps you browse and find files on your computer. For developers, GNOME 2.30 deprecates a number of old libraries.
A preview of GNOME Shell is available in 2.28 and is available for download. GNOME Shell features an innovative new user interface using the power of a composited desktop. GNOME Shell makes it easy to add additional workspaces, start frequently-used applications and access your most-used files and documents.
The GNOME Activity Journal is a tool for easily browsing and finding files on your computer. It keeps a chronological journal of all file activity and supports tagging and establishing relationships between groups of files. The GNOME Activity Journal is the graphical user interface for Zeitgeist, the engine that tracks all activity in the desktop with support for tagging and bookmarking items.
Tomboy Online is also scheduled for GNOME 2.30 and will allow users to synchronise and access their Tomboy Notes via the web.
GNOME's roadmap details the developers' plans for the next release cycle, the GNOME 2.30 release schedule was released earlier this year and is available on the GNOME wiki.