RapidSMS Roadmap

Below you’ll find a rough outline of planned milestones and releases for RapidSMS. For a list of official releases, please see the Release Notes.

v0.16.0

  • Release date: November 6, 2013
  • Misc. fixes

New RapidSMS website

  • Expected release date: July, 2013

Goals

  • Revamp RapidSMS website with new design
  • Highlight high level stories of current installations with pictures and maps
  • Provide a page to track 3rd party reusable apps and backends
  • Blog syndication (community page)
  • Migrate existing content to new platform

v0.15.0

Goals

  • Write a tutorial similar to the Django tutorial for beginners
  • Finish development on outstanding core features and bugs

v0.14.0

Goals

  • Review and analyze cloud hosting providers
  • Write comprehensive deployment documentation for chosen providers
  • Provide instructions and scripts to deploy project in a few simple steps

v0.13.0

Goals

  • Update scheduling architecture based on community proposal
  • Load testing of message handling and routing functionality
  • Identify bottlenecks and create plans for improving performance
  • Write documentation for users intending to operate RapidSMS at scale
  • Integrate 3rd party service providers like Vumi
  • Implement the Bulk Messaging API
  • Finalize and merge the Vumi backend pull request

v0.12.0

Goals

  • Use Twitter Bootstrap in core, based on the community proposal
  • Update contrib applications to meet base standard as per this review

v0.11.0

Goals

  • Update and simplify test harness
  • Add coverage/PEP8 usage guide and documentation

v0.10.0

Goals

  • Introduce new-routing architecture
  • Improve documentation

v0.9.6a