Hi! On utorok 16 November 2010 16:59:28 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
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?
Right now, most of the features are not really specific for release. They are ideas that might be good to be implemented. As we don't know better, right now we assign them to the next openSUSE release and keep that postponing for the ones that did not get done (majority). So, I would introduce an "incubator" for ideas - where even a short description is enough. From here, the openFate screening team picks them up, works on filling details up to the point where the idea is sufficently understood to be implemented (status "Marketplace").At this point, we need to find someone willing to implement the thing - and if there is someone, this feature can be finally moved to particular release (because only here more or less know the timeframe when it's going to be ready). It's similar to agile approach, but much better reflects the reality how we do openSUSE IMO. There is a question of the 'picks for next release' - those 5 mandatory features we want to focus on. For them, we might want to assign the release already in the Marketplace state. I don't have a good answer if to use Products for this or States. Products seems to be more natural choice given the way openFate works right now. Might be the case the current openFate does not fit this proposal. I would like to hear your opinions, if this is direction makes sense to others. Stano -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org