On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Like you, I'd argue in favor of scrapping the roadmap as it exists today, but I think we should do a better job making the Deployments page more informative. For example, now that we're working towards a proper beta mode on mobile _and_ desktop, it would IMO be useful to summarize which features are currently in beta and planned to enter production soon. We still have too many situations where people are caught by surprise by a deployment, both internally and externally.
The mobile web team has been trying to summarize what's going out in our weekly deployments: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments
We've found this tremendously useful both from a pre- and post- deployment perspective. Michelle Grover has been doing some work around automating the generation of these reports, though I believe it's still a WIP.