Introduction

In the IRC meeting on ​26th Apr 2012 the following was agreed upon (from summary):

Agreed that focusing 2.4 release cycle to cleaning up, refactoring and
modularizing the codebase makes sense and addresses many of concerns
pointed out regarding project's long-term viability. This cleanup and
simplification work would also help bring in new contributors, i.e.
lower the barriers to entry due to simpler and more understandable codebase.

Also decided to freeze 2.3 as soon as possible, so that this cleaning up
can start for good.

This page intends to outline the changes that will be needed in 2.4 to reach those goals.