Roadmaps are unreliable. If we say Feature X will be available on Date Y and then it isn’t, people get mad. This gets compounded if people are making business decisions based on a roadmap. And people will make business decisions even if we have big disclaimers in bold red type based on a roadmap. The reason for the delay usually doesn’t matter to people either.

We don’t like people making decisions on features that aren’t released. Further, until you can actually experience a feature you won’t know if it will really work for you. So even if the feature is released on the projected date you’d still have no way to evaluate if the feature meets whatever needs you might have. In our opinion the whole thing just gets messy and leads to PR nightmares that can simply be avoided with one little line:

Always, without exception, make decisions regarding EE based on what’s currently available.