Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (229 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 16 November 2010 13:33:18 Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On piatok 12 November 2010 07:06:54 Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
> > After yesterday's openFATE screening team IRC meeting, I've overviewed
> > recently requested features (via new instance) and got some additional
> > impressions and questions which should be shared and further
> > discussed.
> >
> > # You can read the mention below on http://openfate.titanpad.com/notes
> > # as well. ;-)
>
> I was thinking about the issue of postponing features. I would propose
> to use the 'Package Wishlist' approach, i.e. use backlog
>
> The idea is to use collect all features that are not ready to be
> integrated into a release (underdefined, no good solution found, ...)
> in a backlog bag. Only when we have an idea, how to implement a
> feature, ideally to have already someone willing to work on the
> feature, the feature would be marked for particular release.
>
> This approach will eliminate postponing features forever, at least for
> big number of features where this would happen. Also, it would keep us
> from cleaning up huge list of features for each release.
>
> Did we consider this approach before? If yes, what are the reasons
> against it?

I have been considering as well a general "openSUSE distribution" product 
but was not sure how to do it properly. Could you elaborate a bit more when 
this backlog will be used and what will be done with e.g. openSUSE 11.4? 

Andreas
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