FY2025

This document describes our release schedule from April 1st 2024 - March 31st 2025. This is the UBC / LiteFarm FY2025 fiscal calendar.

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At a high level, we’ll have 4 releases this fiscal year:

Release window

Scope

Notes

Release window

Scope

Notes

Spring (April / May 2024)

Soil Health V1

This is a very small scope of work and may make sense to roll into https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1483767837.

Summer (specific date TBD)

https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1483767837

 

Fall

Soil Health V2

 

Winter

Before May 1st 2025

Smart Irrigation V2

Irrigation will begin mid May, so we should release by May 1st to give ourselves breathing room.

Detailed sprint schedule

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/135iAtp9OWE-e_HrHDPsb4QATDiMcY-v6KaEQGLZL88c/edit#gid=0

Modules and Epics in scope

The following modules and epics are funded for development.

Module

Epics

Estimated release date

Notes

Module

Epics

Estimated release date

Notes

https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/x/GgBuW

Soil Health V1 | Scope

Spring

 

https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/822018049

Roughly:

Summer

See https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1368227863 and children pages as well as https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1404600435 for detailed requirements.

 

https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1421312001 is out, but an animal movement task as part of https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1404895233/Livestock+tasks#%5CuD83D%5CuDDD2-Requirements is in.

Soil Health V2

https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1483866120/Soil+Health+V2#Scope

Fall

 

Smart Irrigation V2

Roughly:

  • Refactor sensor architecture

  • Crop data

  • Weather data

  • Support for additional pivot brands

  • CRUD pivot irrigated field location

  • Support farm layers

  • Updated farm map filters

  • Generate irrigation prescription

  • Interactive irrigation prescriptions

  • Irrigation prescription notifications

Winter (CY2025)

Before May 1 2025

See https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1185349642 and https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1483472927/Smart+Irrigation+V2#New-scope-(not-rolled-over-from-V1) for details.

 

Candidates

The following are candidates that may be pulled into scope depending on funding, partnerships, and community interests.

Module

Epics

Notes on contingency

Module

Epics

Notes on contingency

https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CP/pages/1344274447

TBD

Collaboration between LiteFarm and ORICoop - dependent on agreed upon scope, bandwidth, and funding.

UFAPE Collaboration

  • Support for custom measurements

  • Elaborated (AKA value-added) products

Collaboration between LiteFarm and UFAPE. Initial description of features below:

Elaborated products are on the roadmap regardless, but slated for 2025 otherwise.

https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1318027267

 

Collaboration with OpenTEAM, OurSci, and COMET Farm / Colorado State.