Yes, I don't think it's likely we'll see a unified "roadmap", as there are many different development groups working to add completely different features to Hive (opinion processing, games, social media features, etc).
I'll be making a post soon about the work BlockTrades has been doing.
And I'll also be making posts about plans for future work by BlockTrades as well. I've been holding off until we got finished with our current work, as I'll need to write several posts just to set the stage for the new capabilities I want to add to the Hive network.
Your previous suggestions could be good starting points for showing someone what's going on, but many of the posts in HiveDevs are about ongoing work as well as planned features. I created the Hive Improvements community to be a place where users could share ideas for how to improve the network, but it's also not an exact fit either, because it's about ideas more than concrete plans. But both of those could be good starting points.
There's also a group working on a new Hive whitepaper, but that's more of a general "What is Hive" instead of being a roadmap for new features.
Hey, it's been a month since these comments, what is happening with the Hardfork? There's been no update from anyone for weeks. Tried to comment to @hiveio and got no response, even GitLab looks dead.
And could you point me to the group working on that whitepaper? I want to help them and be done with it, it's about time.
"Eclipse" code was released to gitlab two days ago. I think @gtg is about to make a post where he's running a node for it. Hiveio is also planning to release something more formal. There's a lot of work to be done on the library side still, at least a week worth I suspect, with coordination challenges. Here's commit, it's quite huge: https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive/-/commit/2074917f0735d9bdf22d33f5bdb089df3f6361b0
For whitepaper, check with @guiltyparties . IIRC, he was considering putting it on github rather than gitlab. I haven't worked on it personally, so I'm not sure where collaboration is taking place.
Send me a message over on Discord please @marki99. You can find me on the Hive Discord at https://discord.gg/64YGqcy Whitepaper feedback is more than welcome.
Would be glad to help, thanks for contacting me directly, will find you on discord soon.
As a side note, visible activity on gitlab will be picking up now that devs have completed rebranding and moved work to public repo (at least for hived node software). Same will happen for hivemind shortly (probably in next few days), but changes there are still temporarily in private repo.
On a related note, the easiest way to see activity on a project is using a URL like this one for hive node: https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive/activity
Thanks for all the info and answers. People can't follow everything though, I think the hiveio account should be a bit more active.
It is not necessary to say exactly what is happening if it takes too much time to write up posts, but a weekly update that just says "progress is being made in private repos" is not a big ask.
It's probably worth noting that the blocktrades group doesn't make posts via hiveio, so if you have suggestions for format changes or improvements, it's probably easier to take that up directly with people doing the work. I believe @crimsonclad is the primary writer of the final posts, usually.
Thinking about it, I think that your issue comes down to a core decision on the mission of hiveio: should it just be to report major events, or more of a weekly report. I personally don't have a strong opinion one way or the other.
One option is that I could write weekly reports for the work done by my own team, if that's what people want. The downside could be that those reports would be fairly technical, yet likely to receive high rewards, and this might just annoy people. Well, I suppose I could decline rewards, I always forget about that feature :-)
Generaly speaking @howo is posting biweekly reports about dev meetings, which cover the work being done in more depth, plus early discussions about proposed changes and new features: https://hive.blog/@howo
In the last week, all BlockTrade devs have been pretty much buried in work associated with testing associated with new release, so I think we deferred the last dev meeeting until this Monday. @howo should be following up with a recording of that, plus a text summary afterwards.
I follow @howo, just commented to him earlier today about the missing core dev meeting, so thanks for clarifying. He's probably also busy and doesn't have much time to post updates.
I don't want to keep distracting you, you spent a lot of time answering my comments, but maybe we should make a proposal to pay someone just to talk to the devs and put up some posts on @hiveio regularly. Weekly at least.
Doesn't have to be technical, just important to give some signs of life, and not disappear for three weeks.
I answered some of the above in an edit to my previous reply.
Yes, we commented at the same time...
Perfect, the whitepaper is more than what I expected, it is not fun to write at all...