From 51c07d35cb5b0418d0dec4bd616abbf44bc426e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: OffgridwithJD Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:51:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: stop the roadmap denying the schedule it now carries Three sentences, all true before #830 and false after it. Raised in review there; landing them separately so the release is not held on a branch edit. docs/roadmap.md said "It is not a commitment, and it is not a schedule" on a page whose own commit subject is "publish the schedule". The commitment half was already guarded by "Dates are a cadence, not a commitment"; the schedule half was not, and it was the last thing the reader was told. docs/roadmap.md said "Nothing here is committed to a release" above a table whose only row is #752, which the release table dates to 1.0-alpha5. The collision is the assignment rather than the dates, so the sentence now points at that table instead of contradicting it. design/RELEASE_PLAN_1.0.md said "The tracker holds seven open issues". It held eight within hours of that being written. The ratio it is making a point about, that exactly one is a feature, is still true and is what the sentence was for, so the total is dropped and the ratio kept. A hard count in a hand-maintained file is true on the day and wrong the week after, and the total is a `gh issue list` away. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KL9BxvtjERL34H1XV8BND2 --- design/RELEASE_PLAN_1.0.md | 3 +-- docs/roadmap.md | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) 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.