roadmap.md

Roadmap

The following are the larger areas of upcoming work the GitHub Desktop team intends to explore. This is not inclusive of everything we're working on, and it's not written in stone. We'll continue to update it as our priorities evolve.

Onboarding

• Improve onboarding for new users: #5686
• Measuring success: #5549 + usability testing

Support rebase workflows

• Improve rebase workflows: #5953
• Measuring success: TBD alongside the work + usability testing

Accessibility improvements

• To be further defined, but we want to prioritize scoping a chunk of work on improving accessibility for our users

Working with uncommitted changes

• Improve workflows when you have uncommitted changes: desktop#6107
• Measuring success: TBD alongside the work + usability testing

Branch list grows with merged & deleted branches making it difficult to find those you care about

• Prune branches after they've been deleted: desktop#750
• Measuring success: TBD alongside the work + usability testing

Users behind corporate proxies cannot clone without manual setup

• Help people get set up correctly if they're behind a proxy: desktop#2789
• Measuring success: TBD alongside the work

Shipped in previous releases

Merge conflicts handling (1.5)

• Improve how Desktop handles merge conflicts: #5400
• Measuring success: #5394

Merge workflow iteration (1.5)

• Evaluate and improve merge flow end-to-end: #5555
• Usability testing for merging