Roadmap

Our roadmap is intertwined closely with our Extreme Programming practice. Circumstances and needs change frequently, especially in an online business, and we consider too much planning ahead -- aka Big Design Up Front -- to be an Anti-pattern.

That said, we do have some rough outline of what we're planning.

Initial development phase
At present we are in an initial development phase where the site is visible at http://dev.growstuff.org/ to anyone who's interested (because of our commitment to Transparency) but not really useable by people who aren't closely involved in the development process.

You can see what Stories we're working on currently, and what's coming down the pipeline next, in Pivotal Tracker, at http://tracker.growstuff.org/

First public release
When we have built enough features for the site to be of interest to early adopters -- food gardeners who aren't involved in our development process -- we will launch the site on http://growstuff.org/ and start inviting them to use it, albeit with lots of caveats about it still being a work in progress. This phase will be our alpha/beta period.

Full launch
At some point, we'll have built enough to consider the app "out of beta". At this point our users can expect high levels of stability and support.