What makes you think that development roadmaps are exclusive to Silicon Valley startup product managers, and not just a general practice in software engineering?
As does most successful open source software. It’s more of a "this is where we’d like to see things go long term, but that in no way restricts contributions, it merely helps communicate the ideas of the core contributors.
What makes you think that development roadmaps are exclusive to Silicon Valley startup product managers, and not just a general practice in software engineering?
Mastodon actually does have a roadmap, and you can find it here: https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap
As does most successful open source software. It’s more of a "this is where we’d like to see things go long term, but that in no way restricts contributions, it merely helps communicate the ideas of the core contributors.