ROADMAP.md update for stages and forward view

ROADMAP.md

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-# VMware Tanzu Community Edition High-Level Roadmap
+# VMware Tanzu Community Edition High-Level Program Roadmap
 
 ## About this Document
 
-This document provides an overview of the major themes driving Tanzu Community Edition development, as well as some of the features and
-capabilities that will manifest those priorities, grouped into 0-3 month, 3-6 month, and future buckets. Most items are gathered from
-the community or include a feedback loop with the community. This should serve as a reference point for Tanzu Community Edition users
-to help us prioritize and to supply input on unmet needs, and contributors to understand where the project is heading, and help
-contributors to determine if a contribution could be conflicting with a longer term plan.
+This document provides an overview of the major themes driving Tanzu Community Edition program development, as well as constituent features and capabilities. Roadmap items are tracked by their implementation stage within the enhancements proposal process: Awaiting Proposal, Proposal in Review, and Implementation in Progress. The stages are documented below. Most items are gathered from the community or include a feedback loop with the community.
 
-More detail about short-term delivery plans can be found in the [milestones](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/community-edition/milestones) in
-the [GitHub project repo](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/community-edition).
+The scope of this roadmap is the entire Tanzu Community Edition program, which includes this GitHub project repository, the [Tanzu Framework](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/tanzu-framework) project repository, the project repositories for packages delivered as part of Tanzu Commmunity Edition, and non-code program aspects such as videos, training materials, and community activities.
 
-## How to help
+This roadmap should serve as a reference point for Tanzu Community Edition users to help us prioritize existing features, provide input on unmet needs, and for contributors to understand where the project is heading. Contributors can also consult the roadmap when thinking of proposing new ideas and determine if their idea conflicts with the roadmap. If it does conflict, the team and community will need to determine whether to adjust the roadmap or to recommend changes to the idea.
+
+Enhancement stages help everyone understand if something is in the early stages of an idea or if it has wider community buy-in and committed resources. This is important because it helps limit waste, and focus work on the most important and timely activities. The stages are described below:
 
-Discussion on the roadmap can take place in threads under [Issues](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/community-edition/issues)
-or in [community meetings, our Google Group, or our Slack channel](https://tanzucommunityedition.io/community/).
-Please open and comment on an issue if you want to provide suggestions and feedback to an item in the roadmap.
-Please review the roadmap to avoid potential duplicated effort.
+* Awaiting Proposal - these enhancements are in the idea mode, and the project maintainers are awaiting a detailed proposal. This state is useful to explore different solutions to a known problem and encourage discussion.
+* Proposal in Review - maintainers are currently reviewing the proposal, which includes resource requirements and commitments.
+* Implementation in Progress - engineering work has begun and will be tracking towards a release target.
 
-## Need an idea for a contribution?
+## How to help
 
-Check out our [issues](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/community-edition/issues) for issues tagged
+If you'd like to contribute but don't have anything to propose, check out our [issues](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/community-edition/issues) for issues tagged
 [help-wanted](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/community-edition/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Ahelp-wanted) or
 [good-first-issue](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/community-edition/labels/good-first-issue).
 
+You can participate in discussion on the roadmap in threads under Issues and in sdcheduled roadmap serssions in community meetings. Questions may also be brought up in our Google Group or our Slack channel. Community members are encouraged to be actively involved, and also stay informed so contributions can be made with the most positive effect and limited duplication of effort.
+
 ## How to add an item to the roadmap
 
-Please open an issue to track any initiative on the roadmap (usually driven by new feature requests). We will work with
-and rely on our community to focus our efforts to improve Tanzu Community Edition.
+Please create an issue using the Feature Request template to propose a feature for the project. We will work with and rely on our community to help us flesh out and prioritize our efforts to improve Tanzu Community Edition. Or feel free to submit a pull request against your issue for assessment by the team and community.
 
 ## Current High-Level Roadmap
 
-The following table includes the current roadmap for Tanzu Community Edition. If you have any questions
-or would like to contribute, please attend a community meeting to discuss with our team. If you
-don't know where to start, we are always looking for contributors that will help us reduce
-technical, automation, and documentation debt. Please take the timelines and dates as proposals and goals.
-Priorities and requirements change based on community feedback, roadblocks encountered, community contributions,
-etc. If you depend on a specific item, we encourage you to attend community meetings to get updated status information,
-or help us deliver that feature by contributing to Tanzu Community Edition.
-
-Last Updated: October 2021
-
-|Theme|Feature|Timeframe|
-|--|--|--|
-|**Build user community**|Start public Office Hours and Community Meetings|0-3 months|
-||Start Slack channel and Google Group|0-3 months|
-||Training/enablement resources (including KubeAcademy and Tanzu Developer Center|0-3 months|
-||Reward community support|3-6 months|
-||Community roadmap prioritizatiion|3-6 months|
-|**Accelerate time to value**|Include demo applications for more complete startup experience|3-6 months|
-||Work to reduce time to cluster availability on vSphere and public clouds|3-6 months|
-||Pre-integrated multi-package solutions|3-6 months|
-|**Robust Kubernetes platform**|Limited-internet (including airgapped) support|0-3 months|
-||Aligned to upstream Kubernetes releases|0-3 months|
-||Early availability of upstream Kubernetes releases|3-6 months|
-|**Rich package library**|Work with community to solicit and prioritize desired packages|0-3 months|
-||Pursue community and ISV package lifecycle and configuration integrations via Carvel and Tanzu Framework|3-6 months|
-|**Tanzu scenario support beyond Kubernetes**|Tanzu Application Platform OSS components|0-3 months|
-||Add developer focused UI experience|0-3 months|
-||Bitnami integration via kubeapps|0-3 months|
+The following table includes the current roadmap for Tanzu Community Edition. Please take timelines and dates as proposals and goals. Priorities and requirements change based on community feedback, roadblocks encountered, community contributions, etc. If you depend on a specific item, we encourage you to attend community meetings to get updated status information, or help us deliver that feature by contributing.
+
+Last Updated:  February 2022
+
+| Theme | Feature | Status (Phase) | Targeted Release |
+| ----- | ------- | -------------- | ---------------- |
+| Build user community | Reward community support | n/a | ongoing |
+| |Community roadmap prioritization | n/a | ongoing |
+| Enhance cloud-native user experience for skilled and new users | Unmanaged-cluster model introduced to enable minimal-cluster deployments in under 4 minutes that can run on consumer hardware. | Implementation in Progress | v0.10 |
+| | Work to reduce time to cluster availability on vSphere and public clouds (Cluster API v1.1 Proposal) | Awaiting Proposal | TBD |
+| | Consider more efficient and resource-saving methods to bootstrap | Awaiting proposal | TBD |
+| | Make management clusters registerable in Tanzu Mission Control | Implementation in progress | v0.11 |
+| | Introduce a UI that takes a user from installation through creating clusters to installing packages on clusters. Embed documentation and guidance throughout so that users can be successful exclusively through this tooling. | Awaiting Proposal | TBD |
+| | Expose Cluster API (capi)-provider bootstrapping details, client-side, to users when creating management and workload clusters. Provides users an understanding of where bootstrapping failures occurred. | Awaiting Proposal [(issue)](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/community-edition/issues/2730 ) | TBD |
+|Robust Kubernetes platform | Limited-internet (including airgapped) support | Awaiting Proposal | TBD |
+| | Validate and improve end-to-end tests across all supported infrastructure providers. | Awaiting proposal | TBD |
+| Rich package library | Work with community to solicit and prioritize desired packages| n/a |ongoing |
+| | Pursue community and ISV package lifecycle and configuration integrations via Carvel and Tanzu Framework | n/a | ongoing |
+| Positioning Community Edition as leading-edge upstream for Tanzu products | Community Edition produces its own Bill of Materials (BOM), Tanzu Kubernetes Release (TKr), OCI container images, host images, and packages for CLI plugins and in-cluster software | Awaiting Proposals | TBD |
+| Application Platform | Installable package is made available containing pre-configured, minimally-viable, platform services that enable developers to run their tools and apps (contour, kpack, cert-manager, knative serving, Cartographer, etc.) | Implementation in Progress (TODO: tracker proposal for all components) | Beginning in v0.10; please see issue (in dev) |
+| | Tools and processes for package contribution, maintenance, and installation | Awaiting Proposal | TBD |
+| | Package maintainer documentation and guidance is live such that everyone can understand the responsibilities of being a package maintainer | Awaiting Proposal | TBD |
+| |Provide guidance on bringing new provider packages to TCE; enabling the inclusion of new infrastructure providers | Awaiting Proposal (dependent on Tanzu Kubernetes Provider implementation) | TBD |
+| |Introduce kubeapps to TCE for discovery and installation of packages from Bitnami library [(issue)](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/community-edition/issues/2418) | Awaiting Proposal | TBD |
+| Better defined lifecycle management Cluster API extensibility points |Build the Runtime Extension SDK in Cluster API for ClusterClass patching, pre/post control plane upgrade hooks | Awaiting proposal | TBD |