What is a project roadmap?
It's a rough plan of upcoming releases and what changes they'll contain. Those changes may be new features, or bug fixes, or behind-the-scenes improvements.
How are Thalia versions planned? What determines which changes are in a release?
We may want to add a new feature, especially one users have been asking for. Sometimes a new feature requires other changes. We might make those changes in one release and add the new feature in a later one.
When planning each release, we include a set of bugs to fix. We prioritize bugs based on its impact on the user; the worst bugs go to the head of the line. If a bug is discovered
during testing, it may take precedence and bump other planned work to a later release. Sometimes a bugfix is trivial, and a developer will do it in the course of other changes.
Thalia will be used by other MIT services, such as Stellar. We implement some features based on the downstream service's needs and schedule.
There are three programmers behind Thalia's wizardry, each with a specialty. It may seem like something less urgent is included in a release while something more urgent was deferred. This may be because the developer who would make the change is already fully scheduled for a release.
Finally, project plans may be affected by vendors. Thalia uses some third-party software to power storage. We may incorporate a vendor's software updates in a release, or defer a feature until a later release of the vendor's software.
In short, the plan changes as development and testing takes place. We base releases off of the plan, but adapt to respond as needs and circumstance arise.
The roadmap is not a commitment. If there's a feature or fix you urgently need, please contact us. We take customer needs into account as we plan, and we need to hear from you.
RELEASES
What's a Sprint?
CURRENT RELEASE - Thalia 1.0
(TBD - Sprint 3 Roadmap here, Sprint 4 as planned next week)
FUTURE RELEASES
(TBD - list of upcoming features )
PAST RELEASES