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

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

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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