> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.onset.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> Publish what you're planning and let customers weigh in.

Your roadmap is made of **milestones**: individual features, fixes, or initiatives with a stage, an optional target, and a public description.

## The lifecycle

A milestone moves through stages, and ends up connected to the release that delivers it:

<Steps>
  <Step title="Backlog">
    Ideas you're considering. Useful for collecting
    [upvotes](/guides/roadmap/voting) before committing to anything.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Planned">Committed, not started.</Step>

  <Step title="In Progress">
    Being built. Post [updates](/guides/roadmap/updates) here so customers can
    see movement. This stage can present publicly as *Alpha*, *Beta*, or
    whatever [statuses](/guides/roadmap/stages) you define.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Completed or canceled">
    Done, or dropped. Link the milestone to the
    [release](/guides/releases/overview) that shipped it so the roadmap and
    changelog stay connected.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Create a milestone

Go to **Roadmap → New milestone**. Give it a title and description, set the stage, and optionally add a [project](/guides/projects), [labels](/guides/labels), and attachments (files or external links).

## Control what's public

Under **Settings → Page → Roadmap** you control the visitor-facing behavior:

| Setting                         | What it does                                                                   |
| ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Roadmap**                     | Show or hide the roadmap on your public page entirely.                         |
| **Default view**                | Whether milestones open in **Board** or **List** view.                         |
| **Sort milestones by**          | Created date, updated date, vote count, or hot score, ascending or descending. |
| **Milestone upvotes**           | Let visitors vote. See [Voting](/guides/roadmap/voting).                       |
| **Milestone upvote count**      | Show or hide the vote totals.                                                  |
| **Anonymous milestone upvotes** | Allow voting without signing in.                                               |
| **Milestone comments**          | Let visitors comment on milestones.                                            |
| **Milestone created date**      | Show when each item was created.                                               |
| **Archived milestones**         | Include archived items in the public roadmap.                                  |

## Archiving

Completed and canceled milestones can be archived automatically so your roadmap stays current. Set the window under **Settings → Workspace → Roadmap → Auto-archive closed items**.

<Tip>
  A roadmap with fifty items in "Planned" reads as a wishlist. Keep the public
  roadmap to what you'd actually defend in a customer call, and use the backlog
  for everything else.
</Tip>