Hi,
With the handover of *complete* control of the maemo.org resources, an
improved planning and execution process would seem to be needed.
Requirements
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* Council acts as gatekeeper for project items from community.
* Bugs are fixed as BAU (business-as-usual)
* Time is split between BAU work and project items.
* Mechanism for community to get involved in line items
where appropriate.
Obviously, prioritising everything in Bugzilla - or that could
possibly be done - is impossible. So, how about fleshing something out
along the following lines...
Overview
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* A URL can be visited which shows the community priorities.
* A URL can be visited which shows the aspects of the
community priorities which can be worked on by anyone.
* A URL can be visited which shows the status of the
priorities
* A mechanism so that people can subscribe to items of
interest.
* Manual maintenance of tables (such as in the wiki)
reduced by automation.
Proposal
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* Use Bugzilla.
* Use existing components & projects.
* Use a label for "community_priority"
* Use a label for "community_actionable"
* Link to both prominently from various locations
Outstanding questions
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* How does stuff get in there with the council acting
as gatekeeper? Can the keywords be used only by
certain people?
* How does the council come up with new stuff? Any formal
process or just lobby your local council member?
* Is the priority within Bugzilla represent the community
priority, or just the priority of it within the overall
component?
* How, and how frequently, do the overall priorities get
reviewed? Monthly meeting?
* Can, and should, the items have a due date given to them
once assigned, representing the estimated completion date?
Thoughts welcome. Hopefully this will improve communication, and give
us a prioritisation process with low overhead and good deliverables.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
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Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[email protected] | http://www.bleb.org/
Maemo Community Council chair
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