What do you mean by "official" here?

On 9 Feb 2011, at 12:39, Robert Newson wrote:

> We should be clear that just because Jira has that helpful 'Roadmap'
> panel, doesn't mean it's our official roadmap. It really isn't, though
> that is how Jira would like us to do things. I can't speak for
> everyone, but Jira, to me, is just a tool, it's not the boss of me.
> 
> B.
> 
> On 9 February 2011 12:30, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>> --
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

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