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[Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:01:41AM -0600, Joey Stanford wrote:
>    - Asac mentioned that he's heard some PMs having difficulty tracking
>       items with the current views in status.l.o
>       - Summary: get one page where you can get the team view for a month.
>       At the moment there are several pages you have to look at.

I've asked Alexander to mock up a picture of this to explain what he
wants, and I also think James W. and I exchanged email about this asking
ourselves if this is a project group multi-milestone view or something
else.

>             - The prediction of whether a deliverable can happen in
>             this month or not is difficult. There is no guarantee
>             because of the dependency upon the upstreams. We're
>             struggling with this uncertainty

I think this has two parts to it: one, where you're building something
new that you are unsure will be accepted upstream. Another, where you
submit a patch that would be accepted but upstream is unresponsive for a
while. For the former, I've proposed we carefully lay the work plan out
and prototype quickly. For the latter, I think that's a corner case and
it's acceptable for something to slip delivery if the maintainer was
really unresponsive despite multiple attempts of escalating it.

>       - Joey
>          - Some TLs have issues with a monthly PPR call.
>          - Asac - if we do a good job with the planning report then we
>          should not need one.

Well... bring this up in the next management call. I'm interested as to
the wider opinion around this.
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