Jenny Hsueh wrote:
Dries Buytaert wrote:
I'm very sceptic about roadmaps and long-term planning in the context of Drupal development. A roadmap is vaporware and creates pressure.
... A roadmap is not about time boxing what is going to be developed when, but a shared common vision of the community how to get from point A to point B -- i.e. to understand the target and to understand the inter-dependencies. ...
What is a "shared common vision"? Esoteric wisdom will say it's an illusion. In my experience so far, a roadmap is not appropriate for an open-source community of this calibre. They can be hard to agree on ("we need a vote"), can be stifling ("I'm stuck with this task I don't want"), can create tension ("drupal sucks, look the roadmap you promised"), use up valuable resources ("we have to re-think the roadmap because of ...."). sime