papercuts-ninja team mailing list archive

[Chris Wilson <notgary@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess another way of putting it is "Does this make us too focused?"


On 29 November 2012 14:56, Chris Wilson <notgary@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been thinking about it an perhaps assigning a particular number of
> bugs to each milestone isn't really necessary. Instead of targeting 50 GTK+
> bugs, why don;t we just say that we're going to look closely at GTK+.
>
> We could look at GTK+, Compiz, and a four or five other apps, and we'll
> just make sure it all adds up to 100 by the end of the cycle.
>
> How does that sound?
>
>
> On 29 November 2012 14:20, <druellan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I really like this idea of having a "focused" cycle for an app in
>> particular, try to clear the backlogs a bit, but also be capable of
>> identify and "spin off" more critical core problems out of the scope, keep
>> track of them and help fixing them.
>>
>> I'm not completely sure about the allocation of development cycles to GTK+
>> as a goal. As Timoty pointed out, this bugs can be difficult to find and
>> target if you're not tracking another bug already. I was thinking of it
>> more like a buffer of "spare cycles" to have in case you need to spin off
>> some issue.
>>
>> But, hey! Lets try! I was not sure about the "application focus" thing and
>> now I love it!
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:28:56 -0800 (PST), Timothy Arceri
>> <t_arceri@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi Chris,
>> >               Looks good. I'll try target a few more GTK bugs later on
>> > today. I'm not sure if we will be able to target 50 directly from whats
>> > already in the GTK package bug lists. But as we have already found a lot
>> of
>> > them are hidden away under other projects so it may take a little bit of
>> > detective work to uncover them.
>> > Anyway I really like the direction we are heading for this realese, a
>> lot
>> > of the bugs we have targets have been around for many many years so this
>> > papercuts release cycle should have a real impact on the user experence.
>> >
>> > Keep up the good work guys,
>> > Tim
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> >  From: Chris Wilson <notgary@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: Ubuntu Papercuts Ninjas <papercuts-ninja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:17 AM
>> > Subject: [Papercuts-ninja] Milestone reorganisation.
>> >
>> >
>> > Hey Ninjas,
>> >
>> > In the meeting we had last week, we decided it would be a good idea to
>> > move our focus away from a handful of individual apps and onto the UI
>> > foundation technologies found in Ubuntu. This came up after a number of
>> our
>> > Rhythmbox and Nautilus paper cuts turned out to be GTK+ bugs, so we
>> decided
>> > that GTK and Compiz would be our primary target for this (and
>> potentially
>> > all future) development cycles.
>> >
>> > So I'm proposing the following
>> > 1) We allocate half a development cycle to GTK+, that is 50 paper cuts.
>> > 2) We allocate a quarter of a development cycle to Compiz, that is 25
>> > paper cuts.
>> > 3) We allocate the remaining quarter of the cycle to the biggest,
>> juiciest
>> > paper cuts we can find in Ubuntu's frontline apps.
>> > 4) I've also kept around the Rhythmbox and Nautilus milestones, since we
>> > had already started work on them.
>> >
>> > I'd like to blog about this change in a couple of days, and before that
>> > I'd like to got some feedback from you lot. How does the new layout
>> look?
>> >
>> > What now
>> > I've targeted a lot of bugs while reorganising the milestones, mostly to
>> > Nautilus, and it's probably that a lot of them are actually GTK+ bugs.
>> We
>> > should take a look at the currently targeted ones and make sure they're
>> > where they're supposed to be.
>> >
>> > As for the Compiz paper cuts, MRC1, if that is your real name, you
>> > mentioned the existence of a lot of simple Compiz paper cuts. Can you
>> > please target as many of these bugs that are also manifesting as paper
>> cuts
>> > in Unity to the Compiz milestone?
>> >
>> > Also, could our GTK+ ninjas please fill up the GTK+ milestone with as
>> many
>> > paper cuts as possible? We've only got a few and I'm sure there's tons
>> of
>> > them out there.
>> >
>> > So, thoughts anyone?
>> >
>> > Chris
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~papercuts-ninja
>> > Post to     : papercuts-ninja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~papercuts-ninja
>> > More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~papercuts-ninja
>> Post to     : papercuts-ninja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~papercuts-ninja
>> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>>
>
>