Hi Jason,
Sounds very good to me. You're right that making things surface is a
good thing. It requires more discipline but Maven being so successful
and so many people relying on it now makes it a necessity I think to
better control its evolution.
Now all you need is a good wiki that allows you easier implementation/
follow up of that process... ;-)
It would be real easy with xwiki to have a template for proposals and
have a status combo box on each proposal that you could use to move a
proposal between states. That would then allow you to query the
proposals and list them on the dashboard page in the right category
and do other nice things... (like, automatically send an email when a
proposal in the draft state hasn't been touched for the past 6
months, or whatever comes to mind).
-Vincent
XWiki Developer (just to show that I'm probably biased... ;))
On Jun 26, 2007, at 1:02 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
Hi,
As part of trying to make the whole process of making changes and
adding new features transparent to everyone involved I've whipped
up a little sketch for perusal:
http://people.apache.org/~jvanzyl/DevProcess.png
Basically it revolves around making sure things are documented in
the Wiki and providing a clear record of the evolution of the
project that anyone can follow at any point in time. So far from
perfect but I think a good starting point and I would like to field
feedback so I can improve it. It basically revolves around the
dashboard where I've tried to collect all relevant information
about the project:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Home
And process is based around making proposals that eventually will
serve as the record of evolution of the project. The goal is not to
have anything that's heavy, and that we might eventually be able to
automate some data gathering but for the meantime it's not overly
onerous and provides some visibility we have not yet had to date.
The proposals are all here:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/All+Proposals
And they basically move from draft -> pending -> approved. I've put
some notes in the diagram and I figured we could start with a
simple proposal to see how it works and iron the kinks as we go.
This is experimental but I see it as the best way forward for
getting a clear view of what's going on
Thanks,
Jason
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Founder and PMC Chair, Apache Maven
jason at sonatype dot com
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