Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 19320 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2011 21:12:17 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 8 Feb 2011 21:12:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 89781 invoked by uid 500); 8 Feb 2011 21:12:16 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 89607 invoked by uid 500); 8 Feb 2011 21:12:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 89599 invoked by uid 99); 8 Feb 2011 21:12:15 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:12:15 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2000.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [140.211.11.9] (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:12:15 +0000 Received: (qmail 19199 invoked by uid 99); 8 Feb 2011 21:11:55 -0000 Received: from localhost.apache.org (HELO unknown-78-ca-39-ae-7b-a0.config) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username nslater, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:11:55 +0000 Subject: Re: roadmap Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 From: Noah Slater In-Reply-To: X-Noah: Awesome Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 21:02:28 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <4AB32109-ECD5-4F05-A92B-4B3D3FE6E5F0@apache.org> References: <87791D1F-4E17-4246-B9CD-E067A6D1987E@apache.org> To: dev@couchdb.apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) On 8 Feb 2011, at 20:53, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > What is it supposed to mean ? A roadmap is a "a detailed plan to guide > progress toward a goal " . Why couldn't we define goals ? I think Jan's point is that we use the JIRA roadmap as an advisory only, = and never state that we are committing to it. That means that if I = create a ticket for CouchDB to be able to read and send email, it = doesn't hold-up the project. "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs = which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." =97 Jamie Zawinski