The roadmap has two levels: a fixed set of stages, and statuses you define inside them.
Stages
Stages are the five structural buckets Onset uses internally. You can’t add or remove them:
Statuses
Statuses are what you and your customers actually see on a milestone. Each status belongs to one stage, and you can have several per stage. That’s how a single In Progress stage can present as Alpha, Beta, or Testing publicly.
Onset ships with these defaults:
Customize them
Go to Settings → Workspace → Roadmap. Statuses are grouped by stage, and within each stage you can add new ones, rename them, change their color, and reorder them.
Because every status maps to a stage, Onset still knows a Beta milestone is in progress and a Released one is complete, so sorting, archiving, and filtering keep working no matter what you name things.
Each stage must keep at least one status, so you can’t empty a stage out entirely.
Changing a milestone’s status
Open the milestone and change its status in the details panel. The change shows up on your public roadmap right away, so a customer who upvoted something six months ago can watch it move from Backlog to Beta without asking you.
Using Canceled honestly
It’s tempting to quietly delete things you’ve decided against. Moving them to a Canceled status with a one-line reason in the description does more for trust than silence, and it stops the same request coming back every quarter.
Archiving completed work
Milestones in the Completed and Canceled stages are auto-archived after a period you set under Settings → Workspace → Roadmap → Auto-archive closed items: 1, 3, 6, 9, or 12 months.
Archived milestones can still be shown publicly if you enable Archived milestones under Settings → Page → Roadmap. 
