On 9 Feb 2011, at 09:26, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> On 8 Feb 2011, at 20:53, Benoit Chesneau wrote: >> >>> What is it supposed to mean ? A roadmap is a "a detailed plan to guide >>> progress toward a goal " . Why couldn't we define goals ? >> >> I think Jan's point is that we use the JIRA roadmap as an advisory only, and >> never state that we are committing to it. That means that if I create a >> ticket for CouchDB to be able to read and send email, it doesn't hold-up the >> project. >> >> "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs >> which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." >> >> — Jamie Zawinski >> > > hum, ok yes a ticket is only a ticket. Although I was under the > impression that we can give some priority to the tickets or close them > if they doesn't enter in project goals.
All I'm saying is that just creating a ticket and assigning it a version number won't make us commit to delivering that. Of course we should organise all tickets into versions and come up with a sensible batch of stuff to work towards for every release. Cheers Jan --
