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[Guilherme Salgado <salgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/02/12 15:55, Guilherme Salgado wrote:
> Hi Francis,
> 
> On 06/02/12 13:57, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
>> On 12-02-03 02:28 PM, Guilherme Salgado wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> So, we had a chat with Matt earlier this week and while we work on the
>>> user-testing for the team-based report we'd like to present our plan to
>>> migrate the work items from the whiteboard to the new table. This is
>>> roughly how we see this happening:
>>
>> Hi Salgado,
>>
>> It's great to see you and Linaro contribute this to Launchpad.
>>
>> I don't think Matt raised that already with you, but there is a new
>> policy under discussion that might have an impact on that project:
>> https://dev.launchpad.net/PolicyAndProcess/MaintenanceCosts
>>
>> This will clearly add to the maintenance costs of Launchpad (it's one of
>> the primary benefit to Linaro, so that more of the work-item tracker is
>> maintained in Launchpad instead of your own tools). Can you investigate
>> the possibility of offsetting some maintenance costs elsewhere so that
>> overall this new feature becomes a neutral addition to our maintenance
>> burden?
> 
> I think that would be fine; I'll try to confirm today or tomorrow and
> will let you know.

Just confirmed and Linaro is fine with us doing some extra work in LP to
offset the maintenance costs added by the work-item changes. Would
something like what I described below be fine?  Or maybe Robert can
suggest something? :)

> 
> BTW, I had a quick look at some blueprints bugs and found
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/735970 (+specworkload times
> out for teams).
> 
> After some investigation it turns out that +specworkload shows, for a
> person, the same BPs that are shown on blueprints.lp.net/~person. The
> difference being that the former has extra columns for the role the
> person plays on that BP and the latter has a way to filter the list. For
> teams +specworkload shows a list of team members with a BP table for
> every member whereas bp.lp.net/~team shows only the BPs where the team
> itself is the assignee/drafter/approver. I'm thinking that maybe we
> could get rid of +specworkload and change the default BlueprintLayer
> page for teams to include specs where the team members play a role as
> well, just in case anyone actually uses +specworkload and objects to it
> being removed.
> 
> So, do you think this would be a change that would offset the
> maintenance costs added by our work-item stuff?




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Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado>