Open Source Planning Process
A lightweight process that emphasizes openness and ensures that the Community -- every user -- can be an integral part of Project Planning.
Maintainers lead the project. Their duties include proposing the Roadmap, reviewing and integrating contributions, and maintaining the vision of the project.
The Swarm Roadmap is publicly exposed. While Maintainers propose the Roadmap, it gets discussed and refined in Sprint Meetings.
Proposals and issues can be opened by anyone: every member of the Community is welcome to participate in the discussion by providing feedback and/or offering counter-proposals. See CONTRIBUTING.md.
The Roadmap gets delivered progressively via Releases, which are designated by GitHub Milestones. Each Milestone has a corresponding Project Page which defines the goals of the Release and identifies work-in-progress.
Major decisions affecting the Roadmap are discussed during fortnightly Sprint Meetings.
Published by Maintainers, Progress Reports provide summaries of recent progress. This report is also shared on the mailing list docker-dev.
We use GitHub milestones to track issues and PRs for each release. You can see a list of milestones and related issues here: https://github.com/docker/swarm/milestones. Depending on urgency, importance, or demand for a feature/issue fix, we might move issues and PRs between milestones.