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[James Westby <james.westby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:24:57 -0600, Joey Stanford <joey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Do you have any ideas about what the process should be for workitems
that aren't complete by that monthly milestone?

Does it make a difference to that process if those workitems are
required for acceptance of the blueprint?

Thanks,

James