Roadmap

Rock Minimal Requirements

• v0.1.0 ("atom" Dec 31)

  • CMS capable of supporting the features below (no external website)
  • Add / Edit / Search for a person
  • Person Attributes
  • Person Notes (security ?)
  • Ability to Add/Edit/Delete custom person attributes
  • Global Attributes w/ admin screens
  • Defined Values w/ admin screens
  • Integrated task scheduler (Quartz)
  • Web API
  • Installer (basic)

• v0.2.0 ("silt")

  • Workflow engine
  • Workflow UI
  • CMS capabilities to support Spark Website
  • Security on person attributes
  • Bulk 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

• v0.3.0 ("sand")

  • 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.