Change 5242

Originally Posted : Fri Jan 04 18:59:57 2013
Posted by : Misery
Title : development roadmap

I've considered publishing a roadmap for some time--and a few players had
even requested something along those lines. One of my hesitations was that
it would be one more thing to maintain, and it could easily get out of
sync with actual development. A few weeks ago Russeldog suggested it might
be productive for us to have a "plan" which communicated a sense of
direction and priorities to the wizards as a group--so we could hopefully
get on the same page.

Russeldog's suggestion encouraged me to do some work on generating a
rudimentary public roadmap from a subset of reports in ur task system. I
should note obvious caveats:

1.) The roadmap reflects my current priorities; it's all but inevitable
that some of the projects on this list will be scrapped as we move along,
and new ones will be added.

2.) The roadmap's timescale is intentionally vague and it won't really be
productive to use it as a means of anticipating when a given project will
wrap up. Some projects will inevitably have their timescales adjusted as
we go.

3.) I welcome feedback on the roadmap and projects on it, but part of the
point of a roadmap is to allow us to focus on current and near-term
projects while offloading some of our longer-term goals from the list of
things we actively think about. I don't need to see wall-of-text
posts/tells/mudmails about projects many months down the road. If you feel
the need, please save your thoughts on those and bring them up when those
projects are in the current or near term.

Roadmap: htp://tsunami.thebigwave.net/roadmap.php

Best,
Misery