linaro-project-management team mailing list archive

[Jamie Bennett <jb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, lots of questions, here we go.

On 9 Sep 2010, at 21:27, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 09:12:27PM +0100, Jamie Bennett wrote:
>> As we discussed on IRC. There is already a ~linaro team whose members are:
>> 
>> * ~linaro-foundations
>> * ~linaro-infratructure
>> * ~linaro-user-platforms
>> 
>> There is no reason why we can't add the WG's to this team too.
> 
> Well, there is a reason you stated on IRC, which is that WGs would need
> milestones that lined up with Linaro as well. Is that correct?

If the WG had monthly milestones I could change the scripts to track the whole project in monthly increments thus tracking the whole project. Milestones would be labelled on the chart, I had an implementation of this at the sprint a little while back. Needs work though.

>> Obviously the best way to track the blueprints if we do this is
>> outside of launchpad but the mechanism to do this is already there
>> since I pushed a change to the tracking scripts a few months ago.
> 
> I think you meant "inside Launchpad" above but yes, if the code is there
> I agree.

No, I meant outside of Launchpad. Let Launchpad collect the data, this is exported to a .db and what we do with it afterwards is up to us. Launchpad is great but it has zero project management integration. To get that we need to use the data unless the launchpad team is willing to implement a lot of functionality.

>> Currently the core teams blueprints are tracked at:
>> 
>>    http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/LinaroStatus
> 
> Not having the WGs there means that absolutely should not be called
> LinaroStatus; could we start by getting that renamed to PlatformStatus?

Agreed.

> (Next question is whether we could rename that page to something under
> Releases/1011/ and the one after that is whether we could use it dated
> so people could see the progress, i.e.
> 
>    Releases/1011/Status/Platform/2010-09-05
>    Releases/1011/Status/Infrastructure/2010-09-05
>    Releases/1011/Status/Infrastructure/2010-09-05

Date status isn't currently supported although I'd like to see it implemented. On caveat though, doing this on a wiki is sub-optimal. This needs a tracking-dashboard project which I've mentioned a few times. A django site that pulls in launchpad data and spits out meaningful reports. For an organisation that lives by reporting about the great work its doing something like this would be essential IMO.
 
> Christian Robottom Reis   | [+55 16] 3376 0125 | http://launchpad.net/~kiko

Regards,
Jamie.