AtoM Roadmap

About the roadmap

We utilise the Now-Next-Later format to express our current and future work on AtoM. This allows us to communicate our work openly, while maintaining flexibility and the ability to make new discoveries to support the project. Rather than being time bound, we acknowledge the complexity of software development and the need to be innovative and product led.

We aim to update this roadmap every three (3) months, even if we are still working on the same release. This roadmap will also be updated after a major release to reflect new current work.

Now Category

The 'Now' acknowledges the release and other high priority work we are currently undertaking. This work is viable and clearly defined. Some of this work might be project-related, but not for the next release.

We use milestones to group issues together for the current release. Viewing a milestone will give you a complete view of all the issues being addressed, even if they are not expressed in this roadmap. If an issue is not tagged to a milestone then it is not going to be included in the release. Milestones are updated during the release process more regularly than this roadmap, so check them for the most up to date information.

Next Category

This section of the roadmap articulates the upcoming problems to scope and is always dependent on the outcomes of current work. This can include reprioritised work. There is always space to add to this list as we move it to the Now category.

Later Category

The Later work characterises our long-term goals for AtoM. They are things we would like to tackle, but the research to better understand the problem has not been done. Sometimes the work in Later is broad in scope, ready to be broken into smaller, viable tasks. There is no time limit to things residing in the Later category.

How to get involved

1. You can comment on existing issues or open a new one.
2. You can tackle an open issue and we have tagged some good first issues.
3. We currently do not have a feature wishlist, but you can share your ideas for new features in the user forum.

If you want to open a new issue or contribute code, please read our contributing guidelines for more information.

Developing a feature or tackling a bug and you want to add it to the roadmap? Open an issue or you can contact us at contributors@artefactual.com.

AtoM Roadmap

Updated: 27 March 2025

Now

• 2.10 release - see milestone
  • Improvement to Related Materials field (#1900) - community contribution
  • Hide hidden elements in public EAD

Next

• 2.11 planning
• Improved theme handling

Later

• Improve code modularity
• Integrations with other systems
• Search improvements
• Review standards and AtoM