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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

2011/1/11 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

I suppose Trac only has tickets ("issues"), not bugs & blueprints, so
maybe that is what they mean by merging - but then having types would
be helpful. So rather than out of scope, it may be exactly what they
are trying to achieve?

Knut


>>
>> - 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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