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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Posted to the blog at http://blog.launchpad.net/general/countdown-to-the-pie)

We are now one month away from the Dublin Thunderdome and the stakes of the 
game have increased substantially since last time! At UDS, Jonathan announced 
he was willing to take a pie in the face if we achieved our 0 critical bugs 
goal. Two others joined him in the bet.

As of this writing, we have 210 critical bugs left to fix to pie Jono, Ted and 
Neil. (203 actually, since  7 of those are bugs escalated after the bet 
announcement.) Unfortunately, their face seems pretty safe :-/ If we look at 
the trend of the last 4 weeks, we see that we are burning down about 12 bugs 
per week. At this rate, we would achieve this goal in 18 weeks, so around the 
end of September.  3 months too late for a pie! This week, the Yellow squad is 
starting on maintenance, so we'll see if they can improve on the 12 bugs a 
week burn-down. I mean, that number is 3 times the long-term rate which is 
more like 4 a week, so we are definitively improving! Both because we are 
better at fixing bugs, but also because the number of newly found issues is 
declining. You can see the combined effect of this on the burndown graph as 
the slope gets much sharper on the right.

It doesn't look much better on our third objective which  is to have a free 
slot in the stakeholders Next queue. This week the Teal squad resumed work on 
the our project to improve Launchpad privacy features. They did an initial 
break-down of the project and they have work until the next UDS! The Red squad 
is finishing off derived distributions, probably before the Thunderdome. But 
even then, at that point we would be starting on adding customizable columns 
on search results. And the Next queue would still be full at 2 items. On the 
plus side, we won't be over our work-in-process limit anymore :-)

I'm looking forward to see how this all turns out in Dublin, but whatever 
happens, at the very least, we'll have succeeded early on our 9s timeout 
objective.

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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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