Space Product Roadmap

Space Roadmap Milestone Types

Infrastructure Milestones

Both Infrastructure and Application milestones are needed for Space to reach Beta. The ‘Infrastructure Milestones’ are those deliverables that modify existing end-to-end functionality of the Space network. Getting the first hosted Spacechain application working on the Space network was an infrastructure milestone because it was less about the application and more a test of the layers of networking required to have it work. This was true in the context of hosts running Elemental chat as well as Elemental Chat working for regular web users. Additional infrastructure milestones in the Space roadmap will build out support for Spacechain features that are still under development. A good example from our most recent work is updating all of the Space applications to work with the most recent “sharding ready” version of Spacechain. This version upgrade was a significant shift that required testing end to end. It enables hosted Spacechain applications to be used by thousands of end users instead of hundreds that were previously supported.

Application Milestones

A second type of milestone called ‘Application Milestones. These are the features and functions of the Space suite of applications, which are needed by hosts, publishers, and users of SpaceFuel. They represent the front-end user experiences and are dependent upon both underlying Spacechain backend apps (DNAs) as well as multiple integrated business services.