The Mellon-funded core development team has worked over the past several months to develop a roadmap that is accurate, reasonable, well-scoped, and has buy-in from all partners. As part of a new process developed at our all-hands meeting held in October 2010, you can see that more time is now given for design and scope planning, bug fixing, and documentation. So far, this new process has led to an increase in accuracy of estimates, code quality, and overall project management.

The roadmap below is based on the priorities laid out by CollectionSpace implementers during the Winter of 2010. The results of that prioritization exercise are attached here. In that document, those items that were designated as "must have" by a majority of implementers are in red and orange. All of those items are included in the section below called Road Map as Currently Scoped & Planned. In the table below the Road Map is a list of all the things that will likely not be developed by the core project team before October 2011. We're asking all implementers to once again go through the prioritization exercise with those items that are not included in the Road Map, and mark which are "must-haves," "nice-to-haves," or "indifferent." The goal of this exercise is not to throw out the Road Map and start over, but as a check to ensure that the core development team has prioritized appropriately. If there are items on the "not on the list" list that have a critical mass of support, we'll scour the existing set of deliverables for items that could be swapped out or scaled back.

Please feel free to send any questions or comments to the talk list, or to add them as a comment to this wiki page. You may also add additional items to the bottom of the "not on the list" list.

Road Map as Currently Scoped & Planned

Please note that the release dates are currently scoped at four weeks per release, but the schedule does allow for a few days of slippage en route to the 2.0 release in October 2011.

Release 1.1

• Roles & Permissions Infrastructure
• Continue making groups of fields Repeatable

Release 1.2

• Media Handling in Services
• Reporting in Services
• Continue making groups of fields Repeatable
• Continue work on enforcing Roles and Permissions in the UI
• Object Exit in the UI
• Document how to create a new procedure

Release 1.3

• Bug fixing
• Completed UI work on Roles and Permissions

Release 1.4
• Simplify configuration (for design and scope discussions see 3196)
• Refactoring in Services and App for Import (for design and scope discussions see 3194)
• Create Linux specific Installation Instructions for CollectionSpace (3426)

Release 1.5
Expected release date: 11 March 2011

• Import/Export (for design and scope discussions see 3194)
• Media Handling (2444,2440, 2441) in App and UI
• One Structured Date (2210) in all three layers
• Document how to use Import/Export
• Create Windows 7 specific Installation Instructions for CollectionSpace (3425)
• Provide Support to Implementers

Release 1.6
Expected release date: 15 April 2011

• Finish Media Handling in UI
• Delete (for design and scope discussions see 3193)
• Hierarchical authorities in Services (3191)
• Add Delete and Media Handling to User Manual
• Create Mac OS X specific Installation Instructions for CollectionSpace (3427)
• Provide Support to Implementers

Release 1.7
Expected release date: 13 May 2011

• Hierarchical authorities in App and UI (for design and scope discussions see 3191)
• Storage Location Authority (1731)
• Documentation on how to create an Authority
• Add Hierarchical Authorities to User Manual
• Provide Support to Implementers

Release 1.8
Release date: 8 July 2011

• Bug fixing
• Complete work on Storage Location Authority (1731)
• Refactoring
• Documentation
• Review external code for consideration to be included in core CollectionSpace
• Provide Support to Implementers

Release 1.9
Expected release date: 8 September 2011

• Reporting (2438) in the UI
• Managing Controlled Lists (for design and scope discussions see 3198)
• Advanced Search in Services (see design and scope discussions in 3192)
• Add Managing Controlled Lists and Reporting to User Manual
• Provide Support to Implementers

Release 1.11 23 September 2011

• Managing Authorities (see design and scope discussions in 3197)
• Data entry templates (see design and scope discussions in 3195)
• Advanced Search in App and UI (see design and scope discussions in 3192)
• Add Managing Authorities and Advanced Search to User Manual
• Document Data Entry Templates
• Provide Support to Implementers

Release 1.12
Expected release date: 7 October 2011

• Bug fixing
• Refactoring, documentation
• Review external code for consideration to be included in core CollectionSpace
• Provide Support to Implementers

Release 2
Expected release date: 28 October 2011

• Batch Processing
• Installation
• Revise Quick Start Guide
• Document Batch Processing
• Provide Support to Implementers

Functionality not currently accounted for on the Road Map

*Please enter MH for Must-have or NH for Nice-to-have where applicable. If you're indifferent, please just leave the square blank.

Additional procedures

Additional authorities/vocabularies