diff --git a/design/RELEASE_PLAN_1.0.md b/design/RELEASE_PLAN_1.0.md
index e547475..c830fa4 100644
--- a/design/RELEASE_PLAN_1.0.md
+++ b/design/RELEASE_PLAN_1.0.md
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ rather than the date work starts.
 ## What is already done
 
 Read this before proposing anything for an alpha, because the list is longer than
-the tracker suggests. The tracker holds seven open issues and exactly one of them
-is a feature.
+the tracker suggests. Exactly one open issue is a feature.
 
 Storage and scan, maintenance, and projections. Arrow and Parquet in both
 directions, and external Parquet with pushdown. Object storage and Apache
diff --git a/docs/roadmap.md b/docs/roadmap.md
index 03fb8f8..7abf863 100644
--- a/docs/roadmap.md
+++ b/docs/roadmap.md
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ The large pieces that have shipped:
 
 ## Planned
 
-Nothing here is committed to a release. Each links to the issue that owns it.
+Where an item falls in the series is in the table above; nothing here is a further
+commitment. Each links to the issue that owns it.
 
 | area | item | issue |
 | --- | --- | --- |
@@ -85,5 +86,6 @@ Recorded so the work is visible, without implying it will be built:
 
 ## What this page is not
 
-It is not a commitment, and it is not a schedule. An item here means the work is
-recorded and reasoned about. It does not mean anyone is working on it.
+It is not a commitment. The dates above are the cadence this project has kept, not
+a promise. An item here means the work is recorded and reasoned about. It does not
+mean anyone is working on it.