... I'll begin my post with a nice quoting...
hahaha, an interesting way to get information.
Sadly sometimes even that way gets no real answer at all :S...
I find all this thread very interesting because is informative, shows the "good" intentions in React's people and the surely good but "not-so-polite" way of explaining things of other sides of React's people...
Victor, I applaud your good intentions of giving information, maybe there isn't 100% accurate, maybe not even 50%, but believe me, that's good enough and more than that, that's the best we can get here on React's forums sometimes...
I know, sometimes devs don't even know about realease dates or detailed roadmaps, those kind of stuff can change from one day to another... BUT...
It's perfectly OK to say "we plan to release next version in a week and version XXX in a month" and 3 days later, change that idea... i only have less than 6 months knowing about React and i already noticed there's a loose schedule on things...
As long as you keep informing people about schedule changes, everything will be ok... And i know... in avery forum there's A LOT of people that seems to only ask questions without a previous minimum reading first (that's like 90% of registered forum members :S)... but at least speaking for myself, i try to do a minimum reading first...
For example, i've read that React doesn't support SATA hdd yet (you can try using an "IDE compatibility mode")... but the question remains... Is there a "roadmap" for real SATA support?... i have this question on my mind for like 3 months now and i haven't asked because of the sometimes harsh answer you get from devs :S... and i repeat, i know sometimes is quite annoying to see people only asking questions over and over, but that's not the case of the other 10% of forum members who have (in my oppinion) honest and humble questions... At the end, we are affraid to ask anything 'cause it can be a stupid question from devs POV.
... My point is... you can be more informative answering questions... and you definitely could stop 50% of the repeating questions and annoying members if you take the time to create some UP TO DATE Stickys and loose roadmaps!... you'll probably say "we are too busy doing dev work" but believe me, you will save time answering "stupid" questions by just posting a link to an up to date and frequently updated sticky or an also frequently updated wiki roadmap.
You do an amazing job with the newsletter about current dev work... i love to read that and i just found your commits page and ros-dev list and also loving it... but sometimes this is a little confusing for general people and is not an organised way to catch any roadmap... you could spend some time on stickys and a new roadmap and you will avoid a lot (sadly not all) of discussions like this one... And probably long posts like mine
This is an awesome project with an ever growing community... Questions will only increase in mumber, so you could prepare for that!... besides, that's a chain reaction, if forum members get informed with up to date stuff... that people could (and will) help you answering questions on the forums... I see that everyday on other forums.
P.S.: excuse any spell errors, i'm in a hurry and don't have much time to double check.
Greets.
tuqueque.