Hi folks,
I have been thinking (yes, I try that occasionally) and I must say
that we really need some sort of better tooling for the entire review
process. It is all too scattered if you ask me. I really don't know
where I have to find what I need to know for reviewing. Plone.org,
track, svn, plone-devevelopers@, framework-team@ etc etc, I need one
place where I can find everything there is to know:
* which releases are there and
* which plips do we have to review for this release
* which deadlines are there
* who are the reviewers (ok, not so necessary but for completeness...)
* discussion threads for each plip during the review in ONE PLACE
* status overview of the review process
* instructions per plip on how to checkout, review, what to look for etc
* ....
It may sound like 'cursing in the church' (pardon my dutch) but many
of the modern forum tools out there already allow you to do all this.
You could set it up where each release is a forum with some sticky
posts listing the plips with urls to the plip definition and threads
for each plip in the release. Then each plip can have it's own
discussion. We could add a few sticky posts with process status and
other information needed for each release and each plip. Given the low
amount of plips per release I think that a forum isn't so bad. The
problem with Trac is that you always have to do queries to get to the
data you need and you never know if you haven't missed anything. I
always have a feeling of drowning in Trac-like tools.
It may seem strange to suggest this but at least we don't have to re-
invent something ourselves. It's easy to set up and I even think that
ploneboard should support this from the start. I certainly would
volunteer (with some help) to set up such a board or... when people
have even better ideas, to help implement that. In any way, we have to
improve on this and I really don't think it is hard to do :))
Danny.
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