Open roadmaps for your open communities. Not a success story, but you may have one

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Large projects (Jenkins: ~2,500 repos, ~5,000 contributors) publish roadmaps but maintenance collapses: a custom YAML+JavaScript dashboard is built, attracts initial attention, then becomes stale with only three contributions in a year, a single maintainer bus factor and no ongoing facilitation. Dates cause harm; use horizons (now/preview/future), include docs and infra items, and prefer built-in trackers—GitHub Projects + issues and labels—over bespoke UIs to reduce upkeep and keep the roadmap actionable.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:52Open source communities
3. 7:12Problems with roadmaps
4. 17:01Recommendations

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