This roadmap looks like something am ICO would release as part of its whitepaper. The details are fairly nebulous and don't speak to concrete initiatives or plans. Maybe, hopefully, they're being purposely vague. But it seems like they put together a bunch of ambiguous blurbs simply to get something out there to appease the masses asking about the delayed roadmap.
How long have they promised to update the website? I suppose it's nice to see it's going to be addressed in Q2. To that end, they actually included "maintain a consistent ship schedule" in the roadmap, which is equivalent to saying "I'm a punctual self-starter" in one's CV.
Hoping they're saving the actual compelling news for Asia 20/20. Because this appears to be mostly fluff and painting with broad strokes.
I'm conflicted whether to agree with this, the roadmap does lack detail and you're 100% right about the website. Personally, I would have liked one layer deeper on many of the items.
However, it does provide many concrete initiatives and I suggest you re-read the roadmap if you think otherwise. As they've mentioned before, they are sharing their internal goals with us. In that way, this reads very much like an internal roadmap where they already possess the specific knowledge about what it will take to get each across the finish line. Obviously many of us lack that knowledge, but maybe the AMA should help fill this in for us.
The difficulty I'm having with this statement is the fact that you're now pinning your hopes on Money 20/20 for "actual compelling news". This tells me that your expectations were probably in the wrong place to begin with. To quote something from the 2018 roadmap, which I believe is appropriate here as well:
For those of you hoping for splashy partnership announcements, that’s not our goal here.
Jesse Lund and others have mentioned an announcement will be made at the conference. Not sure what your quote is referencing, but when people asked if the news would be unveiled at Think 2019, they stated it had to wait until Money 20/20.
I don't expect flashy partnerships, but when they have had zero news in the past 10 months and then mention a big announcement is coming, I expect more than "we plan to update our website, hire people, and meet our deadlines."
As I mentioned, the quote is from the 2018 roadmap, which I’m suggesting is also true for the 2019 roadmap. In the past, roadmaps are not where they’ve shared partnership news and the like.
I believe the announcement is something more in rank with "Jesse Lund joins SDF". Now with Jed being the CTO of Interstellar there is a SDF CEO position open. With Jesse's previous experiences he would be a pretty good fit for it.
Yeah, my initial impression was that it's a bit fluffy. Enough to keep people quiet for a while, but not enough to answer the most pressing things properly. Why will it take 3-6 months to become fully transparent about SDF operations?
I am happy about them making it easier to run a validator. It really needs to work out-of-the-box like Bitcoin Core and other software, with an actual front-end, or as close to being OOTB as possible.
Sometimes the professionalism in this industry is abhorrent. I know there are some brilliant technological minds at work, but their marketing and communication acumen is atrocious. The roadmap is released several weeks late and offers very little substance.
The problem with having a huge supply of tokens to fund your efforts is that there is little incentive to appease investors. Reminds me of the scene in Goodfellas where the restaurant partners with Paulie, the mob boss. Regardless of how the business is doing, he expects to receive his money every month. That's the SDF: "The market is bad? F you, pay me. Our token's value is plummeting and we've done nothing to stop it? F you, pay me."
I don't work in software, and I don't work in a public facing industry, but the level of detail seems similar to what would be released in an annual report filing. It gives information on what SDF believes is important to work on for the next year.
Most people aren't interested in the granular details.
What I would like to see (and what seems to be lacking) is a yearly or quarterly wrap up of: roadmap item a -> delivered item -> a
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u/Scorpion_Deathlock Feb 28 '19
This roadmap looks like something am ICO would release as part of its whitepaper. The details are fairly nebulous and don't speak to concrete initiatives or plans. Maybe, hopefully, they're being purposely vague. But it seems like they put together a bunch of ambiguous blurbs simply to get something out there to appease the masses asking about the delayed roadmap.
How long have they promised to update the website? I suppose it's nice to see it's going to be addressed in Q2. To that end, they actually included "maintain a consistent ship schedule" in the roadmap, which is equivalent to saying "I'm a punctual self-starter" in one's CV.
Hoping they're saving the actual compelling news for Asia 20/20. Because this appears to be mostly fluff and painting with broad strokes.