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[Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>]

2011/1/11 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> OK so we have:
>
> - Export to a standardish format.
> - Email notifications.
> - Improved discussion board.
>
> Myself will suggest:
>
> - Way of defining the size/workload for a task (blueprint)
>

Maybe we could add types (task, new functionality, wild idea, improvement
etc.)  of blueprints as well, similar to issue types in e.g. Trac, but that
might be out of scope for them, not sure


> - A auto-generated "roadmap view" for upcoming releases which shows large
> tasks only
>
> I don't really understand what "merging blueprints with bugtracker" implies
> but lets find out.
>
>
> Lars
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:46 PM, jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx <
> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I would like to see something like a wiki or discussion board. The current
>> whiteboard is really limited. Functionality similar to bug reports with
>> capability for multiple comments would be a step forward.
>>
>> Ability to link commits to blueprints would be useful as well.
>>
>> Regards
>> JPP
>>
>> Sent from my HTC
>>
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "Bob Jolliffe" <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2011 18:37
>> Subject: [Dhis2-devs] Fwd: Launchpad: chat about changes to Blueprint
>> To: "Lars Helge Øverland" <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "DHIS 2 developers" <dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Lars
>>
>> Biggest user .. thats quite something!
>>
>> Its interesting that dhis2-academy scores so highly.  I wonder where
>> we sit with dhis2?
>>
>> Looking through the academy blueprints I guess you are using this
>> primarily as a real-world-ish teaching tool which is great for
>> students.  But where I guess it is quite different to "normal" use is
>> that there doesn't seem to be a link with bugs in these projects.  In
>> fact there is no one reporting bugs so your discussion with canonical
>> about merging bugs and blueprints could be interesting :-)
>>
>> But I guess you can use the muscle you have from academy being "the
>> biggest user" to advocate changes/feature requests which will be more
>> useful to dhis2 than dhis2-academy.
>>
>> Merging functionality of bugs and blueprints will be interesting.
>> There are some things which fall somewhere in the grey area between
>> bug, issue and blueprint.  I guess it will be useful to be able to
>> gracefully create a blueprint from a bug report.
>>
>> My main input from dhis side to the merger plans is that they better
>> not bloody break anything!
>>
>> I'd really like to have some way of exporting bugs/blueprints so that
>> we can migrate off launchpad should the occasion ever arise (I don't
>> see it likely at present) or just to be able to maintain backup if
>> they decide to do some drastic type of overhaul (which is looking more
>> likely).  Too much dependence on the cloud is a background worry.
>> Maybe you could raise this when you are on the call.  Can they provide
>> some way for us to backup this data - preferably prior to them doing
>> merge like projects.  Getting access to some kind of xml or sql dump
>> would be good.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Bob
>>
>> 2011/1/6 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> >
>> > Anyone who has suggestions on how to improve blueprints/bugs in
>> Launchpad,
>> > seems now is the time to speak:)
>> > Lars
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:43 PM
>> > Subject: Launchpad: chat about changes to Blueprint
>> > To: larshelge@xxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello Lars,
>> >
>> > Did you know that dhis2-academy was the largest user of Launchpad's
>> > Blueprint app in the past year?
>> >
>> > I've just pulled off a list of the 50 projects who made most use of
>> > Blueprint in the past 365 days, and you come top.
>> >
>> > We're currently looking at how to move on with Blueprint and we're
>> > most likely to merge the Blueprint functionality with Launchpad's bug
>> > tracker.
>> >
>> > As dhis2-academy is the biggest user of Blueprint, I'd love a chance
>> > to chat to you -- or someone else on the project -- about how you use
>> > it. Obviously we don't want to make any changes that will destroy your
>> > workflow.
>> >
>> > Do you have time for a Skype call? I'd like to record the call so that
>> > I can pass a transcript to my colleagues Jono Lange and Matthew Paul
>> > Thomas, who will be planning the merger.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Matthew Revell -- https://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell
>> > Launchpad.net -- cross-project collaboration and hosting
>> >
>> >
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