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+What is this file?
+==================
+
+This file is a loosely-organized list of some of the high-level and long-term
+goals of the project's core development team.
+
+It is *not* a list of specific tasks or ongoing work - for that, please see the
+list of blueprints targeted to the current release cycle, here:
+  https://launchpad.net/ironic/
+
+
+Some of the Big Things we're working on
+=======================================
+
+* Implementing a formal model for Node states.
+
+* Node introspection (discover properties of a known Node)
+  See https://github.com/stackforge/ironic-discoverd
+
+* Support RAID and firmware management
+
+* Improving the Agent deploy driver so that we can deprecate
+  the current "pxe" driver (which is really pxe-boot + iscsi-deploy).