+1 on Don's proposals to improve tracking and roadmap. +0 on JIRA ... Bugzilla makes cross-bug references with Commons projects we depend on a little easier, but that is less important now (most of the Commons packages we use are pretty stable) than it was earlier.
Craig On 11/29/05, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I propose we use an automated, easy to understand roadmap that relies on > Bugzilla tickets marked against Milestones. > > With all the action in the Struts project lately, it is hard to see what > is going on where, and specifically, qualitatively how much work remains > before a Milestone will be reached. We need a system that makes it easy > to see at a glance the roadmap of each Struts subproject, and guide new > contributions. > > I see the solution involving the following: > 1. All tickets, bugs and enhancements, should be marked against a > Milestone if accepted > 2. Any major feature or bug fix committed to svn should have a ticket > and be assigned to a milestone. > 3. A ticket should only be marked against a Milestone if a developer > has committed to work on it > 4. Once all the all the tickets against a Milestone have been > resolved, the release is ready to be rolled. > > The public face of this solution will be automated roadmap pages, which > will be generated from Bugzilla reports. These pages will show, at a > glance, the status of each subproject, its milestones, and current > progress toward reaching them. > > I've developed a Java console app, driven by a cron, which screen > scrapes Bugzilla reports to generate a roadmap [1]. As you can see from > the demo, we don't currently use milestones much at all. The roadmap is > an idea taken from Trac [2] and I've personally have had great success > with this approach of organizing Milestones. > > Comments? > > Don > > [1] http://www.twdata.org/dakine/roadmap/action.html > [2] http://www.edgewall.com/trac/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
