At 10:25 AM 3/12/01 -0600, Sam TH wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:23:10AM -0800, Paul Rohr wrote:
>> As I've been pointing out to various folks in private, I really, really
like
>> how Eazel's been influencing a lot of prominent Open Source efforts to use
>> Bugzilla to track "all unfinished work". Getting stuff like this right
>> really helps.
>
>Well, I'm not sure Eazel gets all the credit for this, but it is an
>excellent idea.
On the "credit where credit is due" theory, please let me know who else I
should be praising. It *is* an excellent idea, and that's the first place I
saw it done so prominently. :-)
>However, I think it conflicts with the goal of
>getting rid of TODO as a category. For example, where else would you
>suggest that I locate the 1.0 and 0.9 tracking bugs?
Please explain. If we have milestone support, then I don't see the
conflict. For example, we could easily say that all of the following work
"should" get done for 0.9:
Description: Crash when doing XXX
Category: yyy
Target Milestone: 0.9
Description: Don't collapse styles to explicit properties
Category: Import -- RTF
Keyword: TODO
Target Milestone: 0.9
Likewise, the following would be listed as 1.0 work:
Description: Toggle tool and status bars *off*
Category: Windows front end
Target Milestone: 1.0
Description: Implement FASTSQUIGGLE cases at EOB
Category: Spelling
Keyword: TODO
Target Milestone: 1.0
Description: Make lists dialog pretty
Category: All front end
Target Milestone: 1.0
And finally, here are some hypothetical post-1.0 tasks:
Description: Normal view
Category: Layout
Keyword: RFE
Remaining work: 1 month
Target Milestone: later
Description: Import tables from my Word XP files
Category: Import - Word
Keyword: RFE
Votes: 1461
Remaining work: 2 months
Target Milestone: hold your horses (aka cough up the big bucks)
Where's the conflict?
Paul
