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Re: [Launchpad-users] Bugs, Features, Tasks, Issues



Earlier this year I tried using the bug tracker for tracking feature development work, and we used tags for each "story" and then broke down stories into a series of bugs, one per planned branch. If we estimated that the ziphonker feature would take 9 branches (where a branch was constained to be roughly a day of work or less) we filed 9 bugs all tagged story-ziphonker. Then we took a script and ran it against the Launchpad API and populated a google spreadsheet showing the list of stories and the progress on each one.

We also made an attempt at doing a kanban type board to track that not too many bugs were in-progress at once (definitely no more than two per dev and more like 30 or less in-progress for a group of 20 developers).

I feel like my experiments with using Launchpad to support lean development were fairly primitive, but I'm definitely a fan of using bugs, tags, and merge proposals, not so much of using prefixes on bug titles. Probably the hardest part of the experiment was how many clicks it took to register all the bugs once we had a list of 40 branches for a couple weeks of work.

I still crave a simple way to say "here's my plan for the week" and then monitor and visualize planned vs actual in some big visible kanban board type of system. Ditto for a backlog of backlogs/branches as well as work that needs estimating. Right now I'm experimenting with just tracking this manually, but it feel like Launchpad has all the raw data if I can just be disciplined enough about how we use it.
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Elliot Murphy

On Dec 4, 2009, at 7:26 PM, "Charlie Poole" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

I recently decided to use the bug tracker for non-bugs for a few
of my projects. It would be cool if this were easier to do.

I'm currently using 'feature' and 'task' tags and experimenting
with a convention that feature requests start with 'Feature:'
and tasks with "Task:'. The tag is good when doing a search,
but the naming convention gives better visibility in lists
of bugs.

Are there any plans to support this sort of distinction directly
in the bug tracker? Does anyone have other tricks that would
work for me?

Charlie




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