Hi all, the purpose of this thread is to provide updates about the core Roadmap presented at the end of January. Similarly to what product folks used to do years ago, the intention is to provide a regular snapshot of where we are at, share what the team is working on, and provide a space to ask questions and give feedback.
Please share any thoughts and suggestions to refine the process of how to keep the community in the loop. A couple of general slack channels where more granular conversations are happening are #delivery-circle and #frontshop-uplift.
Timeframes shifts
After 3.5 months of work, the aspirational timeline is unfortunately not achievable. The planned features are more intricate than I expected, and capacity is limited. I am more than happy to dive deeper on the why’s if anyone is keen, and very open to recommendations on how to assess this better in the future.
The one big lesson (which is not really a new one) is that being able to pinpoint how long it’s going to take to build a feature, or even more so a list of features, is very hard. So for the time being, I would prefer to simply share what we are working on now and what we are planning to work on in the near future (3 to 6 months max from now).
The roadmap snapshot (doc available in Global Google Drive here)
Feature by feature
Taler payments - EU Grant
Github Milestone | Slack channel
Thanks to @rachel, @maikel and folks contributing to this, now it’s completed!
Paying with credits - Funded feature (UK)
Github Milestone
Thanks @gaetan, @BethanOFN and everyone involved in releasing this feature. It’s completed, and there might be room for a little extra functionality, pending stewardship’s circle confirmation.
Tech modernisation (global)
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Stripe integration is up-to-date
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OFN backups can now be performed independently of AWS
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Rails 7.2 is closed to be achieved
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Shackapacker upgrade closes a lot of old security vulnerabilities
Linked variants - Funded feature (FR)
Github Milestone | Discourse Thread | Slack channel
We are getting close to completion for this initial pilot, with some last quite complex assessment of how ownership changes for linked variants and discussing setting up demos for the funding hubs.
This piece of work is also getting us closer to sunsetting inventory.
DFC 2.0 Upgrade - Funded as part of Connecting Farms to Markets (CA)
Github Issue | Upgrade Guide
@maikel deep in this. Confident that the old API can still be used, which helps with external connections like Discover Regenerative.
Products grid view - Core feature (AU)
Github Milestone | Discourse Thread | Slack channel
This falls under the shopfront uplift umbrella.
Off the back of the concept testing feedback and the analysis of the product refactor, we are now kicking off development. @gaetan has picked up the first issue last week.
Multiple product images - Core feature (AU)
Github Milestone | Discourse Thread | Slack channel
This falls under the shopfront uplift umbrella.
Off the back of the concept testing feedback and the analysis of the product refactor, we are now kicking off development. @chahmedejaz has picked up the first issue last week.
Product categories navigation - Core feature (AU)
Discourse Thread | Slack channel
This falls under the shopfront uplift umbrella.
@tschumilas, @dcook and myself have kicked off inception.
It is a complex piece of analysis since it involves assessing DFC integration and maybe enabling custom taxonomy for users, which we currently don’t do. Hard to tell when that’s moving to development, but release of grid view might be dependant on some of this being done.
Product pages - Core feature (AU)
Github Milestone | Discourse Thread | Slack channel
This falls under the shopfront uplift umbrella, and picks up on the highly desired Product modal links from a couple of years back.
So far only some concept designs have been explored, and we are currently at full capacity so we are not able to start deeper inception and analysis. Once some of the above are at a more advanced stage, then we’ll pick this up.
Implications for Developer Team Future Capacity to support new projects
The dev team is at capacity to deliver the current roadmap within existing hours. Taking on additional work would require one of the following: deprioritising something on the roadmap, increasing team hours (capacity exists for this), or bringing in a paid contributor or contract partner. Please share your use case so we can assess whether we can support it in-house or identify the right partner together.
What’s after this?
Still assessing what the remaining budget for Flower Farms is, then we might prioritise some of the OC improvements or bulk tagging.
Checkout improvements and cart reminders have been discussed during concept testing, and might be the next priority since it bundles nicely with the overall front shop uplift.
Backoffice mobile optimisation is a design-heavy big piece of work, we’ll see how to sequence it, and likely break it down and spread it across a long delivery cycle.
More ideas and opportunities have been listed as part of the January workshops and roadmap presentation + some insights from concept testing are surfacing as well. Once we have a bit more time available, we’ll start reviewing those as well and work with the community to understand how important they are.
Thank you