| title: | Planning Process |
|---|---|
| description: | The open source planning process for the Deis project used to define the roadmap and its execution. |
Deis features a lightweight process that emphasizes openness and ensures every community member can be an integral part of the planning process.
Maintainers lead the project. Their duties include proposing the Roadmap, reviewing and integrating contributions and maintaining the vision of the project.
The :ref:`roadmap` is a community document. While Maintainers propose the Roadmap, it gets discussed and refined in Sprint Meetings.
Proposals and issues can be opened by anyone. Every member of the :ref:`community` is welcome to participate in the discussion by providing feedback and/or offering counter-proposals.
The Roadmap gets delivered progressively via the :ref:`release_schedule`. Releases are defined during Sprint Meetings and managed using GitHub Milestones which track specific deliverables and work-in-progress.
Major decisions affecting the Roadmap are discussed during Sprint Meetings on the first Thursday of each month, aligned with our :ref:`release_schedule`.
Sprint meetings are open to the public with access coordinated via the #deis IRC channel on Freenode.
Thanks to Amy Lindburg and our friends at Docker for their inspiration.