Roadmap
Rock Minimal Requirements
- v0.1.0 ("atom" Dec 31)
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CMS capable of supporting the features below (no external
website) - Add / Edit / Search for a person
- Person Attributes
- Person Notes (security ?)
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Ability to Add/Edit/Delete custom person attributes
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Global Attributes w/ admin screens
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Defined Values w/ admin screens
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Integrated task scheduler (Quartz)
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Web API
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Installer (basic)
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- v0.2.0 ("silt")
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Workflow engine
- Workflow UI
- CMS capabilities to support Spark Website
- Security on person attributes
- Communications via email (with plugin strategy for SMS, et al.)
- Ability to store metrics
- Groups (serving, small groups)
- Stock/Basic public website theme
- Marketing-Ads
- Basic reporting
- Check-in system (built on Workflow engine)
- Check-in workflow actions and admin blocks for setup, label setup, etc.
- Check-in label printing from iPad
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- v0.3.0 ("sand")
- Event registration
- Basic giving
- Check entry
- Batch processing (matching to a person)
- Ability to chart metrics (basic)
- Multi-site capable (people / groups)
- Upgrade process
- v0.4.0 ("gravel")
- v0.5.0 ("pebble")
- v0.6.0 ("stone")
- v0.9.0 (official beta release scheduled for Jan 2014)
- v1.0.0 ("rock") - This version would be released 3-6 months after v0.9 so that we can make any needed refactoring changes which might make it impossible to maintain backwards compatibility with the v0.* releases. Once v1.0.0 is released it is our intention to maintain compatibility with all future v1.* releases as per Rule #4 in Semantic Versioning.
We also hope that Rock v1 has a very long life span -- similar Wordpress v2 (which lasted 5 years) or similar to Apple's Mac OSX. Community and third party developers should be able to rest assured knowing that their work will function for quite a while, and jumping to the v2.0 release will be a big deal -- something not taken lightly by administrators and developers of Rock.