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Is the Roadmap still useful?
Clicking on "Roadmap" at the bottom of any Tildes page brings up an issue board. I'm wondering if that's still being maintained and whether it's worth keeping?
The items listed under "in progress" don't look like they are actually in progress. For example, "Add sticky / pinned topics" is marked as "In progress" but in fact it's a year old and there's been no activity for four months.
Yeah, the usefulness of it is pretty iffy. It's basically just something that GitLab auto-generates based on the labels that are on issues, and I don't ever even use it for anything myself. It might be a nicer overview than the raw issues list for some people?
The issues with an "In Progress" label just means that someone's done some work on them, or has said that they're intending to work on them. It doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be coming soon. The sticky/pinned one is a good example of that—some work was done on it in a merge request, but it's not ready to be deployed (and I also don't think we really need the feature at this point, so I haven't helped finish it). The purpose of it might be thought more as showing other developers (and me) that someone's already working on something and that they shouldn't also start on it.
Okay, since I'm not very familiar with Gitlab, I didn't realize that it's a different view of the same bug database. It looked like a separate tracking tool. (Particularly since there is a "Linked issues" field.)
I think most people would have different expectations of a "Roadmap" link? I would expect to see a high-level overview of your plans for Tilde, but that's actually somewhere else.
What would you think of replacing the "Roadmap" link with one saying something like "Planned features" that links to something more like this?
I think that Roadmap board could be nice if it was more maintained and meaningful, but it's probably not doing anyone any good as-is.
Sounds good to me!