On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 16:07 -0800, Gary Wilson wrote: > On Feb 10, 3:36 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Do we need an "enhancement" resolution, or some other way of saying > > "some day, maybe"? The benefit of this is keeping the very low priority > > stuff out of the queue of things needing attention. Then we can point > > enthusiastic bods at the report of "accepted needing patches" tickets > > and they won't get buried in these ones, or we can point them to "useful > > ideas that nobody else is looking at yet", such as #1850. > > How about bringing back the milestone field, making it editable only > by Django committers or something. Then, all the ticket reports could > be grouped by milestone, and Trac would generate the milestone > completion charts for free on the milestone page.
This was the type of thing I was hoping to avoid (and why I'm not really in favour of anything like "for next release", either). It is fairly unrealistic in a volunteer project to set milestone releases unless you are doing feature-based releases; and that tends to lead to unreasonable amounts of time between releases (again, more in the Open Source world than in tightly controlled commercial environments or where you have a dictator-like role for project management). I would rather we split things into two rough piles of "things we are working on, or are in the queue to be worked on, now" versus "enhancements that would be nice to have, but have very low priority for now" (okay, clearly the category names need some work). Milestones just lead to the sound of them whizzing by. We do sometimes need lists of "things that do need to be fixed before the next release", but most tickets just aren't worth classifying like that because you'll end up either having to be way too conservative or changing them all the time, which leads to misperceptions in both cases. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
