I'm seeing so many old, loyal faces walk out all of a sudden - and that's on you, not the backers. And you're absolutely abusing this 'relationship'. So lets turn this professional shall we? I'll share some actual PROFESSIONAL project management knowledge, as there's clearly a void, whether you're talking about sprints, big room planning, or stakeholder management. With any professional project management, stakeholder management is absolutely key to achieving your goals, most importantly, financially. Regardless of crowdfunding terms etc - the backers are your funding. To provide your steering committee with a benefits case and roadmap to deliver which the finance teams signed up to, only then to remove it is completely absurd; and screams of fear. Adding the fact that you've failed to hit any of the major deliverables in the past 12 months, this looks like a clear example of a project being out of control in one way or another and panic setting in, and that this is a clear attempt to maintain stakeholder expectations when a project has failed to hit it's agreed scope. The roadmap was your commitment to transparent development; something we all signed up to on both sides. You spent years (literally) touting how it set you apart from all other development, and we spent years (again, literally) waiting for it (roadmap of a roadmap - remember that?). Removal of the release view is not only a waste of effort, but completely spits in the face of all of us who put faith in your ability to deliver. If you're getting widespread noise from the community, it's because youre failing to deliver - not because a small community took it as a 'promise'. When you consider the triple constraints of project management; time, cost, quality - right now, all three of those are out of kilter. Your project is out of control, and pulling the curtain on the release pipeline will not help you... The commitment was transparency, and the removal of that roadmap goes completely against that. As it currently stands, if I was the exec sponsor of this 'project', i'd be putting a capable project manager on it to recover it - and if I didn't see drastic results within three months, the funding would be pulled. What's spent is spent - and i'm ashamed to be close to Praetorian rank. But this is as clear a message as ever that my cash isn't finding its way to the project anymore. From one project manager to another....read the room, reinstate the release view, and work harder to more accurately plan. Your failures are not the community, and you've let the side down.