Other than digging though Github, is there a public roadmap for new features and such for Frappe/ERPNext?
I like to develop new features via my own custom apps, and sometimes patch different bugs that I find, but sometimes I find myself wasting time because those things are often already under development, anway.
Is there a public roadmap anywhere?
Nope. This is deliberate. Frappe development is much less centrally directed than in many other projects. As I have understood it, architectural changes are discussed and implemented by the maintainers internally, but feature development tends to happen whenever somebody with the ability or resources feels motivated to make them happen.
No public roadmap : The development is community-driven.
What actually works:
Releases: https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/releases : see what shipped
Feature requests: https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/labels/feature-request : filter issues by this label
Open PRs: https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/pulls : see what’s being worked on
Before building something, search GitHub issues/PRs for keywords. If someone’s already working on it, you can contribute there instead.
The milestones, wiki roadmap, and GitHub Projects pages exist but are abandoned.
There is infact a public roadmap which you can find here