{"id":10316,"date":"2016-09-19T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T13:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/?p=10316"},"modified":"2016-09-19T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T13:15:13","slug":"open-planning-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/blogs\/open-planning-process\/","title":{"rendered":"ownCloud Community: Open Planning Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking back to ownCloud Contributor Conference 2016<\/a> we had lots of inspiring talks, workshops and conversations about the future of ownCloud with our awesome community. The productive and progressive atmosphere at TU Berlin brought up many inventive ideas for improvements, new features, prospects for collaboration with other open-source communities as well as visions about where our ship will be heading next. Being a community project ownCloud necessarily needs to make use of the benefits this model offers. For us openness and transparency are crucial factors for the development of secure, trustworthy and innovative software. This not only includes the publication of the source code but it also is a lot about communication, coordination and democracy. To build on the efforts made so far we strive to find ways to connect people because our experience shows that it often is the case that someone comes up with a promising idea but lacks the abilities or resources to start development. This is where communication comes into play to close the gap between idea generation and implementation to make it possible that your vision becomes part of the story.<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to realize this approach we will continue the practice introduced<\/a> by our former product manager Matt Richards which we call the \u2018Open Planning Process\u2019. Until now most of the discussion around these topics happened on GitHub. We now shift this to our community platform on central.owncloud.org<\/a> to open up for a broader audience and to keep our GitHub repositories clean for structured ongoing development. Moreover we separate the long-term planning\/vision process from a rolling, release-based planning process rather focusing on shorter time horizons. <\/span><\/p>\n

As announced at OCC16 I created two topics on Central <\/a>(pinned to the top!) to collect ideas\/suggestions for new features\/improvements and prioritize them jointly:<\/p>\n

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ownCloud OPP – long-term planning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

ownCloud OPP – 9.2 release-based planning
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To contribute to the process we ask you to stick to the following guidelines to stay consistent and well-structured:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Create a topic for your feature wish with detailed description on Central (Category\/Tag: Feature Requests).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Post a comment in the respective OPP\u00a0topic containing the following information:
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