Dear Mnemonic PMC/Dev We have had several releases done since our last reboot, and recruited several new committers and PMC who would like to help us to build Mnemonic a better project. As we enter the second half of this year, I want to share some personal opinions and get your feedback for our next steps ahead.
Our release iterations have been stuck at 0.1x for a while, partially because our project slept for a while and lost momentum. To keep our project growth and maintain a healthy momentum, we need to have a roadmap to remind us, and show to our dev and potential users our next step. Some suggestions are as follows 1. *Increase community engagement* by reducing the deployment dependencies and improving *DOCUMENTATION*/use cases/examples*.* Those will significantly lower the bar for any people who are curious about our project and would like to give it a try or contribute to our project 2. *Build egosystem.* We currently have Hadoop and Spark support plugins in our projects, which is a very good start. We plan to add more support for other popular frameworks such as Flink, Redis, etc. I also suggest splitting those third-party plugins out from our main projects, and maintain each plugin separately in the form of sub-project to avoid growing mnemonic too large and intimidating potential users and customers. 3. *Evolve along with the industrial needs and add new features.* Our project started as a framework for storage backend services, but that doesn't exclude us from adding other features to enrich its functionalities. For example, data security has been getting much attention in recent years. As a storage service, it is very natural we add security features to guard stored data at our framework level, making Mnemonic more competitive compared with similar project/product Just my two cents, please also share your thoughts, suggestions and comments. Based on your feedback, together we can make a roadmap and plan for our v1.x release targeting early 2022. Best Regards Yanhui
