On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 10:00, bob mcwhirter wrote: > > I don't mean to get (too) religious or philosophical here, but... > > It seems to me that a ToDo is just a normal Task that is included > in a particular Release. Part of project-management is determining > which things are going into which release. Instead of maintaining > a pre-release todo-list and a post-release bag-of-tasks, I think > having something to assign a task to a release (even a distant > future release) would make this easier. Tag things as for-3.5, > and when you get near the 3.5 release, you already have your > ToDo list.
That's a good idea, a general task list with various scopes applied over top of it. I will blatantly steal your idea and put it in Maven :-) > Also, part of project management is acheiving deadlines, which > many times means pushing some tasks to a later release. Instead > of "oh, we didn't get to that thing, so let's try to remember to > do it for the next release", you have to explicitly move the task > from this release to the next. > > Folks tend to see the bug/task correlation, but fewer see the > feature/task correlation. In my mind, at least, neither a Bug > nor a Feature IS-A Task, but they certainly might initiate > a Task. Maybe Bug and Feature IS-A TaskInitiator. > > But, now I'm way off in left field... No problem, I can still see you :-) > -bob > > > On 28 Mar 2002, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 09:35, Marc Saegesser wrote: > > > We need the 'must have' list of things that have be complete prior to a > > > release. You already mentioned the switch to commons-logging. I'd like to > > > finish up the test cases for the new HttpMultiClient stuff. > > > > What format were you thinking of presenting the 'must have' todo for a > > release? I'm thinking about the same thing for Maven right now and I'm > > trying to come up with a visually appealing format because I need that > > doc for Maven right now. I was thinking of using some graphics to > > indicate priority but haven't found any yet. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
