Maintain a roadmap

[gvanrossum]

I found an old discussion in my inbox about a potential roadmap for mypy. Here are some excerpts:

[@JukkaL]

Moving these to the tracker sounds reasonable. One option would be to create more future milestones and add the major features to these milestones, even if they won't have any other issues until we start planning them in more detail. Maybe also add a label for important, "big rock" issues so that they won't get lost among the large number of smaller issues. For example (I haven't thought hard about which issues go into which milestones):

• File-level flags / config file in 0.5
• Cyclic dependency fixes in 0.5
• Rename mypy-lang in 0.6 (or 0.5?)
• Incremental checking on by default in 0.6
• Plugin system in 0.7
• Parallel checking in 0.7

We could also incorporate these in the public mypy roadmap (http://mypy-lang.org/roadmap.html).

[me]

Hm... Maybe the roadmap should move the ROADMAP.md in the GitHub repo?
We can link to it from README.md.

[@JukkaL]

That would be reasonable. That way it would be easier to update.

[gvanrossum]

FWIW that list of "big" issues is a bit out of date:

• file-level flags / config file is being worked on (Support a project/repo-wide config file #1249)
• cyclic dependencies is probably mostly done for now
• incremental checking: we have an intern working on this

Some new issues on the road map include:

• make the new parser the only parser
• strict optional checking
• decide how to deal with bytes/str/unicode/ascii

[gvanrossum]

This issue is not helping. Closing.