Future .Plan - the Roadmap ...

long term projects

• add support for system builds of other OpenSource kernel like Minix, Hurd, *BSD, Haiku, (Open) Darwin or Open Solaris
• improve non-system builds like building packages in Mac OS X. Solaris or even Microsoft Windows
• relocatable toolchain so that the resulting build and toolchain and be moved to other locations to continue building or sharing with other people

mid term projects

• no static build priority - instead sophisticated dependency analysis is always used
• parallel building non-depending packages
• revisited configuration system, that is magnitudes (at least) faster
• digitally sign release binaries
• targets will select to-be-built packages by specifying dependency nodes rather than by static regular expressions alike list
• revisited post-install / STONE stuff ...
• rewritten / replaced next generation installer, including support for binary-diffs / deltas
• integration of an graphical installer
• integration of optional graphical boot sequence (userspace bootsplash)
• detailed and generic multilib configuration as proposed here
• no build as root: everything is always cross-built using a single code-patch as ordinary user
• optional graphical configuration system (e.g. Eclipse integration)
• better dependency
• new init template system to generate runit and minit configuration automatically, likewise

For sure you will have even more ideas - suggestions welcome!