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[Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 05:40:38PM -0400, James Westby wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:24:34 -0300, Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We can't provide a view showing the status of implementation of cards in
> the current lane if we don't know which cards are in the current lane.

Ah, of course -- the lane is the fundamental missing piece.

> The healthcheck will be part of this I think, but it's more fundamental
> than that. Without this we can only really show information on the
> engineering blueprints.

Well, you could tie them together by matching the URL, but indeed,
without a lane, you don't know where the work is.

> >Is there any explicit 'initialize a line'
> > script you'll need to run?
> 
> I hope not.
> 
> We'll have to use some conventions on the lane names I think, so don't
> get creative with them and we should be ok.

Okay, I can live with that.

> > > Milestone view
> > > --------------
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure what we want to do here yet, it requires some more thought.
> > > 
> > > Estimate: ?
> > 
> > Maybe the Launchpad milestone page is enough for the first cut. What do
> > you think?
> 
> I think so, Alexander disagrees.

It's okay, we don't need to figure everything out right now.

> > > Launchpad milestones
> > > ====================
> > > 
> > > I contacted Francis about whether we will be able to change the
> > > milestone rules on Launchpad, and am awaiting a response.
> > > 
> > > This is important if we wish to push some of the monthly visualisation
> > > off on to Launchpad, otherwise we may be forced to provide the view in
> > > status.linaro.org.
> > > 
> > > This is a significant risk for this project.
> > > 
> > > Estimate: 0 days, assuming that we can change this and the LP team does
> > > it.
> > 
> > Do you want me to talk it over in more detail with Francis?
> 
> He's apparently back on Thursday, so we should get an answer this week
> on the initial thing. I think that we should likely go over this with
> him, especially with the other things that Alexander is requesting for
> Launchpad related to this.

Okay, set up a meeting for us on Thursday or Friday and I'll be happy to
join.

> > > Bonus features
> > > ==============
> > > 
> > > I'm going to defer looking at this for now, except to stay that using
> > > Launchpad milestone view for the team pages is apparently contreversial,
> > > and so we should discuss that further.
> > 
> > Really? Should I open a new thread?
> 
> Yes please. It's Alexander I've heard this from, and he said he would
> discuss it with you. A new thread for this would help, I'm going to have
> to invest significant time unpicking this one already.

Okay, will do.

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