I on the other hand for reasons listed below think we /need/ a roadmap. But lets first define what a roadmap is, before explaining why Drupal needs one. A roadmap – in contrast what people believe- is not a rigid layout of the plans for the period ahead. Neither is it a braindump of thing we want or a list of formal deliverables.

A roadmap doesn’t come with a receipt and there is no money back either. A roadmap is an abstract flexible projection of the predictable –makeable?- future to get developers and (potential) users aligned within a certain timebox. Strictly speaking Drupal has a roadmap. A roadmap might even be: we don’t need no stinkin roadmap, hence we already do have a roadmap.

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