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[Mounir Bsaibes <mounir.bsaibes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In general this is a very good document really worth reading, it explains
the cards life cycle and the quarterly timeline, etc...  I don't have major
concerns, I did not find any real gaping issues that need to raise a flag
about.
https://wiki.linaro.org/TSC/2011-08-17/Roadmapping

The only thing that I am still not clear about is the mapping between a card
and its associated blueprints. In most cases a card will be implemented by
multiple blueprints, how are we going to associate  a card to all its
dependent  blueprints.
Are we going to have a URL link from each of these blueprints back to the
card? Are we assuming all the  blueprints will have a one child relationship
to the card? How about if we need to create dependant blueprints.
A lot of teams currently are using the blueprints as an administrative unit
to track monthly deliverables (what work items will be delivered this month)
rather than a blueprint as an end-goal by itself.
Which means a lot of blueprints will have dependent blueprints.
I need to see how the representation will appear in status.l.o. before I
comment further on this one.

Blueprinting a card
Need to write a process or come with a step by step, maybe with screen
capture, to make  it easy to do.
What happens before/during and after Connect by whom matrix.

Timeline and scheduling
We should have calendar entries in the e=Events calendar for all the
important dates,  instead of just having the dates in a table somewhere on a
wiki.

Planning
Each TL/PM should have a list of maintenance (on going items) that resources
are assigned/consumed-by and not to over commit.

Devil's advocate
While the idea of restraining the number of cards in a quarter to 3 or less
is good,  a potential issue maybe in a large WG is:  multiple engineers will
have to co-operate on few areas in the quarter. The potential risk here, we
may be forcing some engineers to work outside of their areas of expertise.

Wish list
It was stated that new blueprints will include a link back to the Roadmap
card. This is yet an additional field that need to be added to the
blueprint.
It would be nice to have  blueprint template, when one registers a new
blueprint he/she can choose a template to use. That way all needed fields
with the right syntax will be present in the new blueprint.
Additionaly, each Engineering Unit would  customize a template to create its
new blueprints from.

Cheers,
Mounir


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Mounir Bsaibes
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