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[Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 09:40:42AM +0300, Ilias Biris wrote:
> in order to help me comprehend the new process, and to enable me to
> convey it in a fast way I went ahead and drew some process diagrams.
> They are stored in
> https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/?pli=1#folders/0B2TRRvye9pnjMGZhOTA0NzktNmIzMy00YmUyLWFiYzMtMmIxYmUxMjY0MzU5,
> a collection of files which I have now shared with you.

These are nice. I have two overall comments:

    - It would be easier if these were inlined in a main document which
      had then scaled to a size which we could easily grok. As it is,
      it's going to be hard for me to comment on them individually. If
      you want to use the wiki there are some clear advantages to it
      (with some clear downsides too ;-).

    - You probably want to generate an updated set to cover the changes
      that went into the final(ish) Roadmapping page that I put together.

> Also note: I clearly do not handle questions about the tools in these
> diagrams. IMHO tools should support a clearly defined set of processes
> which we should agree upon. I do not aim to demean the tools importance,
> rather wanted to focus first on understanding and agreeing on the process.

The main change you'll need to make is that the diagrams still focus on
the "batched roadmap" model which was originally proposed to the TSC in
Vicky's presentation; I now think that model is actually infeasible
given the requirements we have for cards (acceptance criteria, etc) so
you should probably focus more on the card lifecycle and less on the
roadmap reviews (which I think should be continuous).

What probably /will/ be batched is a marketing roadmap that will be
extracted from the kanban board. But I don't think you need to worry
about that from the PM side.
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