[SLI-0090] 🚀 Long Term Roadmap (LTR)

[thewillyhuman]

🚧 This is our roadmap 🚧

This issue (SLI-0090) tracks high-level plans for shex-lite. It gives entry points for release-level issues as well as broader goals that correspond to rough milestones over the next year. In practice, these goals are pretty hit-and-miss w.r.t. people actually doing the necessary work, but they are reported here as aspirations and for discussion.

Release plans

• shex-lite 2.0 beta - detailed in SLI-0094 released 2020-04-22 (mail thread)
• shex-lite 2.0 release candidate - detailed in SLI-0095 expected May 2020
• shex-lite 2.0 stable release - detailed in SLI-0096 expected June 2020
• shex-lite 3.0 beta - detailed in SLI-0104 expected August 2020
• shex-lite 3.0 release candidate - detailed in SLI-0105 expected August 2020
• shex-lite 3.0 stable release - detailed in SLI-0106 expected September 2020
  • shex-lite 3.5 LTS - yet to be drafted expected September 2020
• shex-lite 4.0 beta - yet to be drafted expected November 2020
• shex-lite 4.0 release candidate - yet to be drafted expected November 2020
• shex-lite 4.0 stable release - yet to be drafted expected December 2020
• shex-lite 5.0 beta - yet to be drafted expected February 2021
• shex-lite 5.0 release candidate - yet to be drafted expected March 2021
• shex-lite 5.0 stable release - yet to be drafted expected May 2021
  • shex-lite 5.5 LTS - yet to be drafted expected August 2021

Primary focus of each version

• shex-lite 2.0: Shape expressions subset definition & Compiler design/development.
• shex-lite 3.0: Automatic import shapes from tabular formats & Java domain model generation.
  • shex-lite 3.5 LTS: First production ready release with long term support 🎉.
• shex-lite 4.0: Validation of simple graphs.
• shex-lite 5.0: Compatibility with neo4j and other RDF based systems.
  • shex-lite 5.5 LTS: Second production ready release with long term support 🎉.