Merge pull request #24460 from baude/roadmap

podman: update roadmap

README.md

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 ## Roadmap
 
-1. Further improvements to `podman machine` to better support Podman Desktop and other developer usecases.
+The future of Podman feature development can be found in its **[roadmap](ROADMAP.md)**.
-1. Support for [conmon-rs](https://github.com/containers/conmon-rs), which will improve container logging.
-1. Support for the BuildKit API.
-1. Performance and stability improvements.
-1. Reductions to the size of the Podman binary.
 
 ## Communications
 

ROADMAP.md

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+![PODMAN logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/containers/common/main/logos/podman-logo-full-vert.png)
+
+# Podman Roadmap
+
+The Podman development team reviews feature requests from its various stakeholders for consideration
+quarterly.  Podman maintainers then prioritize these features.   Top features are then assigned to
+one or more engineers.
+
+
+## Future feature focus
+
+* Further improvements to `podman machine` to better support Podman Desktop and other developer usecases.
+  - Smoother upgrade process for Podman machine operating system (OS) images
+  - Release and pipeline automation for Podman machine OS images
+  - Performance improvements
+  - Convergence of WSL technologies with other providers including its OS
+* OCI artifact support
+* Integration of composefs
+* Partial pull support (zstd:chunked)
+* Improved support for the BuildKit API.
+* Performance and stability improvements.
+* Reductions to the size of the Podman binary.
+
+## Previous quarterly feature prioritizations
+
+This section is a historical account of what features were prioritized by quarter.  Results of the prioritization will be added before at the beginning of each quarter (Jan, Apr, July, Oct).
+
+**2025 Q1**
+
+* TBD