This is the roadmap for the Carbon Design System, based on our planned design and development path. It is a list of our priorities in various broad initiative areas.
This plan captures our work for our October 2019 release.
- September 2nd, 2019: Start release cycle
- October 4th, 2019: Code freeze for the endgame
- October 7th-11th, 2019: Release Candidate cuts and smoke tests
- October 15th, 2019: Release/Endgame done
Primary goals
- Hold a contribution summit (late September)
- Get alignment, validation and technical point of view for our proposed contribution model
- Operational Contributor License Agreement (CLA)) needs to go up on the site
Deferred goals
- High fidelity designs for community contribution experience on Carbon site
Primary goals
- Clear high and medium priority issues in accessibility project backlog
- Provide general accessibility team advocacy and training throughout the project
Stretch goals
- Per component accessibility documentation
- Create a system to track/monitor turnaround time on a11y issues
Brand/theme
Primary goals
- Create a native, client-side search for our Gatsby theme
- Improve our website table component
- Vertical rhythm and spacing normalization in our theme
- Improve our video component accessibility
Stretch goals
- Create gated/protected paths for private data
- Enhance our image gallery #237
Primary goals
- Content website content audit and strategy
- Comparative usage guidance audits
- Triage Patterns by quality and importance #189
- Patterns status overview (cupcake version)
- Get Cloud Integrations Patterns up on site #87
- Get Axure tool page up on site
- Reorganize and skin the grid demo and incorporate layout guidance
- Explore theme / variant switcher component display window
- Add Charts pages #208 #239
Stretch goals
- Replace
CarbonDocs with markdown/mdx - Add Elements docs on website
- Add Sass docs on website
- MVP of integrated component page
- Wires and prototyping tertiary / on-page nav for Carbon site to better accommodate contribution vs. placing everything in ‘Experimental’
Deferred goals
- Use React instead of Vanilla in code examples
- Production guidelines to accompany mdx guidance
Primary goals
- Shipping color palette V2 #3904
- IDL kit
- Completion / clean-up of any bugs from plugin
- Add pictograms when ready from dev
- Carbon kit get library swap from the new IDL and library kits
Primary goals
- Determine priority of feature enhancements
This roadmap is not a delivery commitment and is subject to change based on user needs and feedback.