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title: VictoriaMetrics goals
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# Goals
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VictoriaMetrics project is aimed towards the following goals:
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1. **The main goal** - to help customers and users resolving issues with VictoriaMetrics components, so they could use these components
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in the most efficient way.
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1. Fixing bugs in the essential functionality of VictoriaMetrics components. Small usability bugs are usually the most annoying,
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so they **must** be fixed first.
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1. Improving [docs](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/tree/master/docs) for VictoriaMetrics components,
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so users could find answers to their questions via Google or [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) without the need
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to ask these questions at our [support channels](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#community-and-contributions).
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1. Simplifying usage of VictoriaMetrics components without breaking backwards compatibility, so users could regularly
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upgrade to [the latest available release](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html) and remain happy.
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1. Improving **the essential functionality** of VictoriaMetrics components.
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1. Improving the readability and maintainability of the code base by removing unnecessary abstractions and simplifying the code whenever possible.
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1. Improving development velocity by optimizing CI/CD tasks, so they take less time.
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# Non-goals
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1. Adding non-trivial features, which require significant changes in the code and the architecture.
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Such features may break the essential functionality of VictoriaMetrics components, so a big share
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of the existing users may become unhappy after the upgrade.
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1. Adding unnecessary abstractions, since they may worsen project maintainability in the future.
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1. Implementing all the features users ask. These features should fit [the goals](#goals) of VictoriaMetrics. Other features must be closed as `won't implement`.
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1. Merging all the pull requests users submit. These pull requests should fit [the goals](#goals) of VictoriaMetrics. Other pull requests must be closed as `won't merge`.
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1. Slowing down CI/CD pipelines with non-essential tasks, since this results in development velocity slowdown.
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1. Slowing down development velocity with non-essential requirements.
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