# Development Roadmap

## Overview

PODPAC is in beta development right now. We are sustaining this software following an 2-year, fully-funded project. The present goal is to refactor caching and interpolation based on our usage experience.

## Management of Development
We use [Github Projects](https://github.com/creare-com/podpac/projects) to manage development of different PODPAC versions. To get a sense of where this project is going, feel free to have a look, and make suggestions for features in upcoming versions.

When features / bugs are identified through Github issues, they will be added to the relevant project. The features and bugs will be prioritized, and targeted for a release. In some cases, minor releases will be created to fix important bugs.

## Versioning scheme

We use the following versioning format:
`Major.minor.hotfix+hash`
* Major:
    * For major releases > 1, the interface will remain backwards compatible
    * As an exception to this, the 0.x.x releases (pre-feature-complete) are not guaranteed to be backwards compatibility
* Minor:
    * Each minor release adds requested features, and fixes known bugs
* hotfix:
    * Hotfix releases fix high priority bugs
* +hash:
    * During development, the git hash is appended to the end of the version
    * This allows a particular point in the development to be referenced
    * Tagged releases will not include this hash