[Roadmap] Roadmap is live!

Mark Corum mark at plone.org
Mon May 7 11:15:36 UTC 2012


I've made your changes to the article.

Mark


On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> wrote:
> Mark,
>   Just a thought… we could cover my previous point (i.e. the fact we've
> previously had a roadmap) via a quote from me if you want? Ie. keep the
> current title and just add this quote in somewhere (feel free to edit):
>
> "The Plone project has always had a published roadmap, and this has been one
> of the key strengths of Plone as an Open Source project.  Anyone can see
> where the project is going in the future. The problem we identified was this
> roadmap was managed by the Framework Team and directly tied to the Plone
> Improvement Process (PLIP). It did not allow us to document longer term,
> more strategic, objectives. This new roadmap has been compiled by the newly
> formed Roadmap Team in consultation with and input from a much wider
> audience"
>
> -Matt
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> On 7 May 2012, at 10:27, Matt Hamilton wrote:
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> On 7 May 2012, at 09:01, Mark Corum wrote:
>
> The announcement has been up since about an hour after the posting.
>
>
> I'm just wondering about the title of the news item:
>
> "First Official Roadmap to Plone's current and future development published"
>
> Sounds like we have never had a roadmap in Plone's past and sounds a bit
> johnny-come-lately to me. AFAIK we have previously had a roadmap for a long
> time:
>
> https://dev.plone.org/roadmap
>
> In fact, Real Story Group even point to it as a feature of Plone in their
> CMS report:
>
> """One of the benefits of a well-managed, open-source project is that the
> roadmap is posted (and discussed) online, so if major changes are in the
> works, you will have advanced warning. The roadmap is publicly available at:
>
> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap
>
> We advise you to watch the roadmap page (and the Real Story Group blog)
> regularly, as Plone’s roadmap (and the progress along the way) can be a
> moving target; it seldom looks the same from one month to the next."""
>
> OK, we can argue that that roadmap is not strategic, or in many cases in the
> past even accurate ;) (although looks better currently).
>
> Just wondering if we should have a slightly more positive title seeing as
> this is going to be seen by many analysts and competitors and I don't want
> them to say 'Oh Plone finally has a roadmap, we've had one for ages' or
> similar.
>
> Something along the lines of "Plone publishes updated roadmap to current and
> future development"  or similar and perhaps a paragraph towards the start
> saying something along the lines of we have previously had a roadmap, but
> that it vas very development focussed and the roadmap team was formed to
> provide a more long term strategic view to the roadmap.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Matt
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