Microsoft Open Source Survey

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I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who participated in the Microsoft Open Source survey. Your feedback is greatly appreciated as we continue to grow as maintainers of this project and supporters of you and your businesses.

The survey results seemed to indicate that we're doing a pretty good job of maintaining this open source project. Thanks for the vote of confidence 😄 Of course, we've got plenty of room for improvement. We heard loud and clear that we need to grow in a few key areas:

• We're not doing so great with managing the PR process, including getting feedback to you and merging PRs that are approved in a timely fashion. In response to that, we're working on a new policy and procedure to ensure that every PR has a designated person who can see it through promptly. Additionally, we're trying to burn down the current PRs, some of which have been sitting for a while. Thank you for your patience with this.
• We also heard that having a roadmap for our project would be helpful. As a first step towards this, we've created the FAST Architecture Roadmap and the FAST Tools Roadmap. We hope to continue to invest in these roadmaps for visibility, as well as add more roadmaps in the future (e.g. a components roadmap).
• Finally, we heard that our documentation still needs significant work. Over the last few weeks we've made several key improvements such as full text search, new introduction visuals, index pages for sections, breadcrumbs, and a cheat sheet. We're currently putting together plans to improve our home page and level-up our components documentation. Much more is planned for the future.

Thank you again for your support and for helping us to grow as maintainers.