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["Charlie Poole" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Olof, 

Launchpad "Blueprints" encapsulate the metadata needed to track
things like specifications. They manage dependencies, relation
to milestones and releases, status, etc.

The actual content could be a specification, a user story, etc.
It's kept elsewhere, usually a wiki, and the blueprint contains
a link to it. The only real content in the blueprint is the
"Whiteboard" which allows you to make notes of current status,
progress, obstactles, etc.

So far, all our Blueprints have been rudimentary, because we
didn't have a place to write the full story. I installed the
wiki primarily for that reason, although we're only just
getting to it .

Charlie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olof Bjarnason [mailto:olof.bjarnason@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 12:15 PM
> To: Charlie Poole
> Cc: nunit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Nunit-dev] Blueprint format
> 
> Umm I'm not following anymore.
> 
> Is the wiki used for 'blueprints' today..? And we are 
> migrating to Launchpads "blueprint" system?
> 
> I hadn't seen the blueprints-thing on the wiki - and it seems 
> to be offline at the moment.
> 
> Keep evolving! This is fun.
> 
> 2009/8/17 Charlie Poole <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi Olof,
> >
> > I've been thinking about some critical blueprints I have to 
> write, but 
> > now I think I should put that aside and do a few rather 
> easy ones, so 
> > we can discuss format. :-)
> >
> > Feel free to create any you are interested in yourself - it doesn't 
> > take any special launchpad authority and I just made sure you could 
> > write under :dev:specs in the wiki.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Olof Bjarnason [mailto:olof.bjarnason@xxxxxxxxx]
> >> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:58 AM
> >> To: Charlie Poole
> >> Cc: Andreas Schlapsi; nunit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re: [Nunit-dev] Blueprint format
> >>
> >> 2009/8/17 Charlie Poole <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> > Hi Olof,
> >> >
> >> >> Sound OK to me, although I find the separation of "design"
> >> >> and "implementation" somewhat strange.. To me they are the
> >> same thing.
> >> >
> >> > Maybe the words are wrong.
> >> >
> >> >> Here's an attempt..
> >> >>
> >> >> Summary
> >> >> Rationale
> >> >> Usage examples
> >> >
> >> > User stories?
> >>
> >> Wording is so hard! :)
> >>
> >> I meant what you seem to be meaning with "Design" - the public API.
> >>
> >> Even more to the point: I meant examples of the usage of 
> the proposed 
> >> new feature, as in how it would look to the end user, in code.
> >>
> >> >
> >> >> Design suggestions
> >> >
> >> > If this is a specification, then suggestions doesn't seem
> >> to make much
> >> > sense. Maybe you are thinking that the design may be 
> implemented by 
> >> > somebody other than the author of the blueprint, and you
> >> don't want to
> >> > lock them down too much. In that case, I would say only 
> put in what 
> >> > needs to be specified and leave out everything else.
> >>
> >> Yes suggestions was meant as "hints on implementation". 
> But I'm not 
> >> quite fond of this as it suggests things that ought to be left for 
> >> later (after writing the first test!).
> >>
> >> >
> >> >> Unresolved issues
> >> >
> >> > This could be a transient heading untill things are
> >> actually resolved.
> >> >
> >> > I'm still not sure about implementation - maybe we need 
> it for some 
> >> > specs. For example, we may decide to release a feature in
> >> stages and
> >> > we would want that as part of an implementation plan. 
> Certainly, we 
> >> > don't need a section that tells us how to code it.
> >>
> >> I think I like your later suggestion on this thread - wait with 
> >> anything "template:ish" and in general, be liberal.
> >>
> >> With that said - I wouldn't mind if the "start here templete"
> >> would adhere to the development style of 90% of the NUnit 
> developers 
> >> (I
> >> guess): TDD. So instead if talking of details, just explain via 
> >> examples.
> >>
> >> Examples + rationale are the only important stuff I think ..
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Charlie
> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Andreas
> >> >> >
> >> >> > --
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