Ross Gardler wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > >Ross Gardler wrote: > >>David Crossley wrote: > >> > >>>The "roadmap" mixes in all of the plugins issues. > >>>The so-called "Priority" is a reporter-based priority. > >> > >>Does it? I can't check it right now (I'm replying offline) but I'm > >>pretty sure I moved all of the plugin stuff out of the roadmap for 0.8. > >>The only references to plugins in there (that I intentionally left) is > >>to how core handles plugins. > > > >Ah, i did not realise that you were doing that. > > > >However, as we move more stuff into plugins, > >what would happen when we have plugins issues > >that need to be fixed? > > That's where you urgency field comes in (which wasn't available when I > did the 0.8 roadmap).
That sounds like it would work. So to assess the state of the upcoming release, we look at the filters to see Urgency=blocker and Urgency=urgent (whether they are marked on the roadmap or not). The remaining issues on the roadmap are "hope-to-fix". Is that how you see it too? > >>>We also need regularly look at the "unscheduled" > >>>filter and add some to the roadmap. There have > >>>been many new issues added since you did that > >>>initial classification. > >> > >>I have been watching them carefully and adding those necessary to the 08 > >>roadmap. I may have missed some, i don't claim that this is finished > >>since it has not been reviewed by the community. But the point is most > >>of what you say needs to be done has been done. It just needs review. I > >>have been progressing along this roadmap assuming lazy consensus was in > >>operation. It is in operation. There were many issues in the "unscheduled" before you started. Speaking for myself, i don't look often enough at that filter. > >We agreed that we needed to have the additional > >field called "Urgency" (see earlier in this thread). > >You helped to craft the words to explain it and > >to define the options. See: > >http://forrest.apache.org/issues.html#urgency > > Yes, and as new issues have been coming in I have tried to give them an > urgency rating, although I am sure some have slipped through my net. We still need to attend to this "Urgency" rating. There are not many issues listed so far. -David
