Today in an extended work session with @board and some of the team sitting in, we discussed how to overhaul Snowdrift Wiki - Snowdrift.coop Roadmap to make it a much more usable roadmap.
I already did an initial draft-level update to the page which previously was just a disorganized single-level bullet list. But the key items from the meeting were:
Organize by phases (ideally by time-frame such as quarters)
Within each phase, organize the proposed work by a reliable set of categories
The roadmap should state the broad concepts but more concretely than vague terms like “solidify”
It should link to actionable milestones and issues in GitLab but does not need to map to those exactly
We should specifically mark which items are launch-critical
The roadmap should be written for use by many parties: the team organizing our work, the Board and outside advisors like OSI reviewing and holding us accountable, and the broader community seeing our progress or volunteering to help
Everyone appreciated the simple clarity of the status-page mockups. We just have one request for that page: it should link directly to the planning roadmap. How should that be added?
We have an explicit request for design input on how to format the roadmap most effectively. Once that’s settled, we can get to working out the content.
Seems to be using milestones in the roadmap. @eloquence was emphasizing that roadmap is really higher-level and should not map to the milestone details necessarily. We should also be using milestones well and make it easy to track them.
@msiep check-in today made things clear enough. Our format for now will be:
current phase (with date)
backlog (roughly ordered and marked)
each section (phase and backlog) having items grouped by overall category
separate wiki page to record past phases for accountability
The one item still would like from you: please decide on the best place to link directly to the roadmap from the (to-be-implemented) status page of the main site. I.e. we want that page to have a direct link to the roadmap wiki page.