Roadmap

Skosmos is developed using an agile process, which means that plans for future releases are not set in stone but instead updated as the user needs and requirements evolve. Since January 2020, main development is done in sprints. Each sprint has a set of goals and a backlog of issues that the sprint tries to resolve. If the sprint is succesful, the result is released as a Skosmos release.

This page lists a number of high level goals. Actual development items are represented as GitHub issues and their development is planned and tracked through sprint-specific GitHub Project boards.

Roadmap for 2023

Sprint 1/5 (January 2023) development focus:

• [Finto.fi server update]

Sprint 2/5 (March 2023) development focus:

• [Finto.fi server update]

Sprint 3/5 (April-May 2023) development focus:

• Skosmos 3.0

Sprint 4/5 (autumn 2023) development focus:

• Skosmos 3.0 + misc. updates

Sprint 5/5 (autumn 2023) development focus:

• Skosmos 3.0 + misc. updates

Roadmap for 2022

Sprint 1/4 (spring 2022) development focus:

• Loose ends and bug fixes

Sprint 2/4 (spring 2022) development focus:

• Misc updates and bug fixes

Sprint 3/4 (autumn 2022) development focus:

• Frontend updates (significant upgrade to Bootstrap 5 and minor updates to third-party JS libraries)

Sprint 4/4 (autumn 2022) development focus: *[Finto.fi server update]

Roadmap for 2021

Sprint 1/4 (spring 2021) development focus:

• Loose ends and bug fixes

Sprint 2/4 (spring 2021) development focus:

• Better visualization of vocabulary changes
• Better support for classifications

Sprint 3/4 (autumn 2021) development focus:

• Search improvements

Sprint 4/4 (autumn 2021) development focus:

• Better support for multilingual vocabularies
• UI improvements
• Code quality improvements and review of selected technical implemention choices (tech debt)

Roadmap for 2020

• February sprint and release: Code quality and performance improvements, better support for publication of classifications

• March sprint and release: Better support for publication of classifications

• April sprint and release: Usability improvements, UI translations, support for Docker installations

• May sprint and release: API functionality improvements

• June sprint and release: Concept page improvements

• September sprint and release: Layout and accessibility improvements

• October sprint and release: [Finto.fi server update]

• November sprint and release: [Finto.fi server update]