Where can I find information about the roadmap of delta.chat?

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Hi all.

I would like to know where I can find information about the delta.chat roadmap. Where can I find information about the roadmap of delta.chat?

For example, where can I find out which features will be released this month?

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Well, there is nothing like a roadmap … because there isn’t really a road for many of the things happening :slight_smile:
but 1.36 apps are currently rolling out, also during April, introducing QR-based multi-device setup, “all-chat media views”, multi-account notifications and various internal optimizations and fixes.

Works for 1.38 are only gearing up now, and likely involve “1:1 verified group chats”, streamlined/improved multi-device setup (1.36 has it still as experimental) and some fixes and improvements for Webxdc apps.

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Hi hpk.

Usually in any app there is a roadmap. For example, on Discourse there is a category called roadmap where you know which features will be released.

For example, https://community.bitwarden.com/t/bitwarden-roadmap/12865

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But thanks anyway for answering my question. I thought there was a category in the delta-chat discourse about the roadmap. For example: https://support.delta.chat/t/delta-chat-roadmap/12865

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The thing that comes closest to a roadmap is our blog, e.g.: Decentralization Unchained (Psst ... want a UI/UX dev job?) - Delta Chat

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I had the same question and ok, the answer is understandable. Having a public roadmap is not just a public commitment but also (in practice, more often than not) a guarantee of arguments with/between users about why feature X should be given more priority.

For what is worth, tech-curious readers can check deltachat repositories · GitHub – which isn’t straightforward to follow because there are many repositories but at least it is sorted by most recent contributions, so at least you get an idea about what is being worked on publicly.

Still, I would welcome a high-level comment now and then somewhere easy to find where the maintainers would say “right now we are working on X and Y”, “We have started to look into Z”… It would help non-devs like me who are promoting Delta Chat to new users to share a bit more, not just about features in development but also about the fact that this is a free software project where you can more or less follow what’s going on and what is under development right now. A concept that most WhatsApp etc users haven’t even thought about.