Hi all,

Lately I have come into question about just how useful the road map 
process is. There seems to be little success in using it as a tool to 
plan out releases and the project short term road map.

Issues are scheduled without discussion unless explicitly asked as part 
of a road map update email, issues are set priority with no discussion 
or agreement blocking releases, etc... In short it seems the process is 
not agile enough or is too restricting for the project.

So I don't plan to put any more effort into such a process if it doesn't 
work. I am also tired of looking like the bad guy when trying to police 
the policy. In a few cases it has made me look like i am trying to 
control what goes into GeoServer. Which is ironic because the reason the 
process was drafted up in the first place was to ensure that no one 
person or organization had such rights.

So unless someone else wants to take this on I don't plan to send any 
more road map update emails, or work for any sort of structure into the 
short term road map. Which sort of leaves us in an undefined and 
arbitrary state in terms of release dates. But I am sure the community 
will figure it out as it has in the past.

-Justin

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Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.

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