Jody Garnett ha scritto: > Thanks for the clarification Andrea. > > > At the moment only the items that are scheduled for a specific release > in the short term road map officially have funding. > > > The description for Medium term also mentions funding: "These projects > have funding or commitments from developers, but are larger projects > that will take more time. They should get on for 2.0 or 2.1" > > > Everything else does not (with the notable exception of complex feature > effort) so it may be either just waiting for funds, or may be something > that a developer is working on in his spare time, and that may get > stuck at any point (see WPS, I haven't been working on it for 2 months > due to other stuff keeping me away from it). > > How do we communicate this better? > > > The intro to the page does a pretty good job; I just skipped over it > until now (bad jody no cookie).
I changed the page formatting so that the relevant part is in italic, should make it stand out so that most people should notice it now: http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Roadmap+Ideas I also added some wording on the "GeoServer roadmap" page, that is, the roadmap page linked from the home page: http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Roadmap to better express the idea that the fact an item is in the long term roadmap does not necessarily mean there is any specific commitment on it. In fact the roadmap page is build by querying jira, so any user can add a new feature request, and it'll end up being in that page too. > My preference would be a nice little picture saying > "funding opportunity" (or the slightly nicer "volunteer needed" ). This > could be contrasted with associating a contact person or organization > next to the items in the short term roadmap? Hum, this sounds like a good idea to me, it expresses the need for some external help without looking "pushy". Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
