On Jan 12, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Charmian wrote: > I see that some google analytics integration is planned. Will this > probably be a launch feature, or something that will be added in later > versions? > > This has been the feature I've most wanted at Livejournal, so I am > especially interested in it.
This is a hard question to answer! Many of the things that are in our Bugzilla list right now are things that will get added "as soon as possible" -- which is to say, we very much want to add them, and will do so at the first available opportunity, but it all depends on the availablility of engineer resources. (And what the volunteer developers find interesting to work on, too.) In this case, Google Analytics integration is a P3 enhancement -- which is to say, we've placed it above lots of the other enhancements we want to make. I've been lazy about setting priority and classification of items (enhancements vs. bugfixes), and I'll be going through and fixing that at some point soon. This means that theoretically, it'll get added before other, lower-priority enhancements. In actuality, though, a lot of the P5 enhancements are simple and easy to add in, while the higher-ranked enhancements are harder to do and take more resources, so someone might grab something of a lesser priority and get it done in the meantime. I do happen to know that someone's working on Google Analytics integration, though, so I have hope of getting it into the codebase soon -- if not at closed-beta launch (which is unlikely, since we're gearing up for closed-beta as quickly as possible and have a lot of other stuff to get in the code first), then soon thereafter. Basically, there are four categories of things: low-effort low-"win", low-effort high-"win", high-effort low-"win", high-effort high-"win". We're concentrating on the stuff that's high-effort/high-win right now, with occasional forays into low-effort/high-win. Google Analytics integration is sort of medium-effort/high-win, so it's certainly on the list, but it's not a critical item for launch. Clear as mud, right? *g* --D -- Denise Paolucci [email protected] Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. Coming soon! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
