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[Joey Stanford <joey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi TLs and PMs,

As we think through the delivery of monthly milestones and their
affect on status.linaro.org it's become very apparent that WIs should
/not/ span months. Instead they should exist on a BP you intend to
deliver in one month.  If you have a piece of work that will span
multiple months then it should be multiple BPs (i.e. one BP per month,
not two months working on one BP).  If you think you'll span months,
please split the work into (minimally) one month chunks as BPs.

This allows us to use the LP milestone view and not spend time
updating status.l.o with essentially duplicate functionality. It also
allows us to spend more time improving the "card view" (Roadmap item
completion).  Additionally it allows us to better communicate
success/failure to the TSC (we're delivering something that someone
could attempt to use vs some obscure subset of WIs).   And lastly,
it's just plain easier for you to manage a single BP per month than
WIs from several BPs spanned across multiple months.

Please take this under consideration for your September (and beyond)
planning. You do not have to make any adjustments to August.  Yes,
sometimes you may have to make hard choices initially as to what goes
into one or more BPs on a given month. This will get easier over time
as we all adjust to the cadence.

Thanks,

Joey