Re: [Banshee-List] making and maintaining a roadmap?

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

Hey Michael,

Any progress on this?  Need any help?

Gabriel

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com> wrote:
> What do you think of combining it with the Calendar page
> (http://banshee-project.org/about/calendar/)?  The roadmap could be
> beneath it (since it could get quite long).  Or perhaps a separate
> About > Roadmap page would be better.  Or maybe not even underneath
> About...
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com> wrote:
>> Great, I hereby put you in charge of it, then.  :)  Feel free to
>> delegate/rope people into helping you.
>>
>> Can you e-mail me off-list the username you want for the website?
>>
>> Gabriel
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Michael Martin-Smucker
>> <mlmartin13 gmail com> wrote:
>>>
>>> A roadmap was something that I definitely would have been interested in when
>>> I was just updating from one stable Banshee release to the next.  Now that I
>>> subscribe to all the bug reports and read commit logs, a list of future
>>> features wouldn't be as exciting for me to read, but I'd be glad to help
>>> maintain it so it's there for others.
>>>
>>> Also, since my coding skills are progressing terribly slowly, no coding time
>>> would be lost if I would help maintain a document like this. ;)  If
>>> developers/people-who-know-what's-up feed me with specific information, I
>>> can keep it organized in a user-accessible document. (Also, I think the
>>> website would be the first place most people would look for this kind of
>>> information, but I'll do whatever you think is best.)
>>>
>>> Let me know; I'm happy to help out however I can.
>>>
>>>
>>> gabaug wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey everybody,
>>>>
>>>> I recently blogged about the schedule for the upcoming releases
>>>> (http://gburt.blogspot.com/2010/01/banshee-release-schedule.html) and
>>>> got some feeback suggesting we maintain a Roadmap to make it easier
>>>> for others to have a sense of what's coming up.
>>>>
>>>> We've used roadmaps a few times in the past, which has worked out
>>>> alright.  But it takes quite a bit of effort to maintain, it's often
>>>> duplication of what's in bugzilla or on the list.  And it can give
>>>> people an unreasonable expectation about when features might land,
>>>> when the reality is it's very uncertain - based on developers'
>>>> interest, time, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody have thoughts?  Anybody feel like stepping up and maintaining
>>>> such a document?  It could be in the form of a page on the website, or
>>>> it could be in the form of a series of blog posts, similar to
>>>> Bertrand's Pending Patches Periodicals, or perhaps something else.
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>>
>>>> Gabriel
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