# Planning Process

Deis features a lightweight process that emphasizes openness and ensures every community member can be an integral part of planning for the future.

## The Role of Maintainers

[Maintainers][] lead the Deis projects. Their duties include proposing the Roadmap, reviewing and integrating contributions and maintaining the vision of the project.

## Open Roadmap

The [Deis Roadmap](roadmap.md) is a community document. While Maintainers propose the Roadmap, it gets discussed and refined in Release Planning Meetings.

## Contributing to the Roadmap

Proposals and issues can be opened by anyone. Every member of the [community][] is welcome to participate in the discussion by providing feedback and/or offering counter-proposals.

## Release Milestones

The Roadmap gets delivered progressively via the [Release Schedule][].  Releases are defined during Release Planning Meetings and managed using GitHub Milestones which track specific deliverables and work-in-progress.

## Release Planning Meetings

Major decisions affecting the Roadmap are discussed during Release Planning Meetings on the first Thursday of each month, aligned with the [Release Schedule][].

Release Planning Meetings are open to the public with access coordinated via the #deis IRC channel on Freenode.
Notes from past meetings are below, along with links to a recording of the entire meeting on YouTube.

### November 2015 (Deis v1.13)

The public release planning meeting for Deis v1.13 will take place on
**Thursday, November 5th** at **12pm MDT/1900 GMT**. The [event][] can be added
directly to your calendar.

### October 2015 (Deis v1.12)

Roadmap items completed: Stateless Logger

Roadmap items added: Deis v2

Archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK1TzeQxGaY

### September 2015 (Deis v1.11)

Roadmap items completed: Production Hardening

Roadmap items added: Etcd Hardening, Rigger

Archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqTUDBmriDA

### August 2015 (Deis v1.10)

Roadmap items completed: Scheduling and Orchestration, Etcd 2, Networking v2

Roadmap items added: Internal Service Discovery, Permissions and Teams, New Default Scheduler

Archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tOrv4Uzz4

### July 2015 (Deis v1.9)

Roadmap items completed: Pluggable Storage Subsystem, User-defined Health Checks

Roadmap items added: Stateless Logger, Production Hardening

Archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_rJFWSFY5I

### June 2015 (Deis v1.8)

Roadmap items added: Pluggable Storage Subsystem, Networking V2, Etcd 2, User-defined Health Checks

Archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-DyN1_II4

## Credits

Thanks to [Amy Lindburg][] and our friends at [Docker][] for their inspiration.

[Amy Lindburg]: https://twitter.com/amylindburg
[community]: ../contributing/community.md
[Docker]: https://www.docker.com/
[event]: https://goo.gl/q27Jyh
[Maintainers]: ../contributing/maintainers.md
[Release Schedule]: release-schedule.md