Yeah, I do product roadmaps and I know why they suck. I'm thinking more like: "If the trade winds blow the right way, here are some things we think would be neat:" No commitment, but just to show that stuff is happening and what the general flavor is. Even "next week, if I get lucky, I'll start to think about feature N that I dreamed up last night after drinking too much Brawndo."
I think promoting ideas via this list is perfectly fine as long as you think that's a workable approach. I don't like voting systems either because most can either be gamed easily or take enough time to build and manage that they replace a useful feature. I'd love to see, some day: Document-based DB support, like Couch Ferret (still not sure what to do next) On Apr 16, 5:13 pm, "Adam Wiggins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, justindz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would be nice to see a list of features that you're intending to > > add, assuming stability remains in place. Not as a guaranteed, set-in- > > stone thing, but just some of the requests that you're planning to hit > > in the next 6 months or something. > > Yeah... I'm leery of this sort of thing, because it can lead to > disappointment and other bad feelings. Partially because we may not > do whatever's on the list if something else higher-value comes along, > and partially because we might do it but not in a way that people > envisioned. Maybe the way we did do it is actually better (hopefully, > it is) but if some people had their heart set on one thing and got > another, well, it doesn't matter if it's better. > > This is especially true in a space that is as new as ours. Even in > the seven months or so we've been doing this, we've already seen some > pretty major new technologies appear, and with a firm roadmap, we > might find it harder to take advantage of them. > > Here's a nice post on that topic: > > http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/694-you-dont-need-a-product-road-map > > Still, I see your point - you'd like to know what we have in mind for > the future. Maybe we'll think about how we can share that in a way > that's vague enough that it will sidestep these concerns. > > > A feature request system might be > > nice too, given that some of us have things we'd really love to > > register, even if they involve pie flying through the sky. > > We'll probably do this at some point. For now, post here, or email us > privately - even though we don't respond to everything, we definitely > read it all. > > Adam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to heroku@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
